The death fast of Ayşe Gökkan, mayor of Mardin's Nusaybin district, has entered the seventh day. Gökkan stages death fast in a mined land on the border to Rojava to protest against the wall of shame Turkey is building between Nusaybin and the Qamishlo city in west Kurdistan.

Mayor Gökkan was on Tuesday treated by Kamuran Yıldırım, Chairperson of the Turkish Doctors' Union (TTB) Mardin Branch, who stated after the treatment that Gökkan's health deteriorated, and that she has reached the “critical point”.

Yıldırım said the mayor was greatly affected by the death fast and  has lost nine pounds in the last seven days. According to Yıldırım, Gökkan suffered from muscular spasms and pains as well as abdominal pain and edema in her feet. He said Gökkan stressed that she will not end her protest until the construction of the wall is ended.

Mayor Gökkan, who gave a message to DIHA (Dicle News Agency) through her press consultant, pointed out that Kurds will not accept the walls Turkey is building on its border to Rojava to separate Kurdish people from each other. Gökkan remarked that men divided the world into plots and divided it into parts with wire fences, and underlined that it was women who were effected the most by the borders. “This is not a matter of a wall construction, for we need to remove the borders in the 21st century today. We cannot accept the walls of shame that are being built between the peoples in Nusaybin and Rojava which both house Arabs, Assyrians, Armenians, Yezidis and Kurds.”