Six prisoners from Bayburt M Type Prison and ten others from Batman M Type Closed Prison have joined the hunger strike that has been staged by PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and PAJK (Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party) since 12 September in protest against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and denial of self-defense at courts in mother language.

In a letter about the strike action, sixteen prisoners announced their joining the indefinite and non-alternate strike as of 5 October. Prisoners said that they will not hesitate to pay any price for the ending of the severe isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader.