PKK and PAJK prisoners to go on three-day hunger strike
PKK and PAJK prisoners to go on three-day hunger strike
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party (PAJK) prisoners in Turkey will go on a three day hunger strike on 23 June to protest against the isolation on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan and fascistic pressures targeting the Kurdish people.
In a statement on behalf of PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey, Deniz Kaya announced a hunger strike to be staged on 23-25 June with an aim to not to remain silent in the face of dirty policies followed by the AKP government. The statement by Kurdish prisoners called attention to the recent process of destruction policies against the Kurdish people, which started with Roboski massacre and continued with the deadly killing of 13 prisoners in Urfa E-Type Closed Prison.
On the other hand, political prisoners in Diyarbakýr D-Type Closed Prison released a statement and announced that they have started a three day hunger strike as of June 21.
“Our leader and movement’s peaceful efforts to ensure a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem have been turned down by the AKP government which has on contrary to these efforts carried out destruction operations against guerrillas and political slaughter operations against our people. We, as the political prisoners in Amed prison, will never remain silent about the slaughters, savageries, tortures and exiles of the AKP government. Our three day hunger strike on 21-23 June will be staged with the slogan ‘To resist means to live’.”, said the statement by political prisoners in Diyarbakýr Prison.
In a statement on behalf of PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey, Deniz Kaya announced a hunger strike to be staged on 23-25 June with an aim to not to remain silent in the face of dirty policies followed by the AKP government. The statement by Kurdish prisoners called attention to the recent process of destruction policies against the Kurdish people, which started with Roboski massacre and continued with the deadly killing of 13 prisoners in Urfa E-Type Closed Prison.
On the other hand, political prisoners in Diyarbakýr D-Type Closed Prison released a statement and announced that they have started a three day hunger strike as of June 21.
“Our leader and movement’s peaceful efforts to ensure a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem have been turned down by the AKP government which has on contrary to these efforts carried out destruction operations against guerrillas and political slaughter operations against our people. We, as the political prisoners in Amed prison, will never remain silent about the slaughters, savageries, tortures and exiles of the AKP government. Our three day hunger strike on 21-23 June will be staged with the slogan ‘To resist means to live’.”, said the statement by political prisoners in Diyarbakýr Prison.
