15 PKK and PAJK prisoners have announced they will turn their hunger strike into death fast on 30 April.

The prisoners have been on hunger strike from December and March (when all prisoners joined the resistance) to demand the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

In the statement, the death fast is referred to as the next stage of the resistance. All other PKK and PAJK prisoners will continue their indefinite hunger strike.

The hunger strikers refer in their statement again to their declaration, in which the conditions for ending their action are set out. If serious and lasting steps are taken by the state to ensure the demands highlighted in the declaration, in particular the end of Abdullah Öcalan's isolation, the hunger strikers are prepared to end their action.

Names of the prisoners to go on death fast are as follows:

Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison:

NESRİN AKGÜL

ŞÜKRAN AYDIN

ZOZAN ÇİÇEK

Gebze Women’s Closed Prison:

ARDIL ÇEŞME

ASLI DOĞAN

Van High Security Prison:

AHMET ANIĞI

ÖZHAN CEYHAN

VEDAT ÖZAĞAR

İHSAN BULUT

EROL ÇELİK

Amed D Type Prison:

ENGİN AKHAN

ENVER DURMAZ

AHMET TOPKAYA

A. HALUK KAPLAN

FERHAT TURGAY