Prisoners in Diyarbakır High Security Prison No. 1 continue their hunger strike to protest Turkey’s use of chemical weapons. The prisoners wrote letters to the UN and relevant institutions asking them to investigate its war crimes.
The indefinite alternating hunger strike launched by the prisoners in Diyarbakır No. 1 High Security Prison on 24 October to protest the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish state in the regions of Zap, Avaşîn and Metina has been going on for 12 days.
The 3rd group of prisoners went on hunger strike on Tuesday. Each group fasts for 5 days.
According to Mesopotamya news agency, Ferhat Onkol, Afaşîn Musazade and Baran, the prisoners who were part of the second group of hunger strikers, told their families: “Attacks against Kurds are unacceptable. As a part of this society, we have to be sensitive to this. Likewise, we think that all democratic institutions should be sensitive to this issue.”
Letters to UN and relevant institutions
The prisoners added that they “wrote letters to the relevant institutions, embassies, the United Nations and the Ministry of Justice against chemical weapons.”
