Rally in Bourdeaux to support hunger strikes

"In the '80s Laz Kemal launched an initiative in Amed prison to say stop to the persecution in northern Kurdistan. Today, a mother from Central Anatolia is in the same conditions in the same Amed jail."

Kurds and their friends attended a march in Bordeaux, France.

At the march solidarity messages were given to hunger strikers in Strasbourg and the fast by PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey and Kurdistan prisons who demand an end to the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Speaking at the rally DKTM Co-Chair Mehmet Varto said: "In the '80s in Amed prison Laz Kemal launched an initiative to say stop to the persecution in northern Kurdistan. Today, a mother from Central Anatolia is leading the same action in the same Amed jail."

Varto stressed that today's conditions are not like the conditions during the '80s adding that today there are 40 million PKK members.

Leyla Güven has launched an initiative, said Varto, which will end with a victory.