In Strasbourg 14 Kurdish activists are fasting since 17 December demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.

Members of the Kurdish Women's Movement in Marseille, who have taken over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe, have visited the hunger strikers.

Likewise dozens of Kurds from Germany and France have been coming to see the activists.

‘Reclaim the resistance today, not tomorrow!’

In a speech on behalf of a group of Kurds from Mulhouse, some Kurdish activists repeated their call on everyone to reclaim the resistance of the hunger strikers.

The words said by Leyla Güven were repeated to visitors: “What will kill us is not hunger but silence”.

Kurdish activists who visited the hunger strikers pledged to spread the resistance wherever they are.

Members from the Kurdistan Martyrs and Disappeared Families Organization (KOMAW) in Mannheim said that the demands of the hunger strikers are the demands of the entire Kurdish people.

They underlined that isolation is inhuman and called on everyone support the resistance.

Members of the Marseille Kurdish Women's Movement, who took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe, stressed that Kurds will not give up their struggle. The Vigil has reached week 348.

Hunger striker Ayvaz Ece asked all Kurdish women to reclaim the resistance. Ece asked all the Kurds, especially women, to ask themselves, “What did I do today?”

Ece added: “The more women will support our action, the closer we will be to success. So far we haven’t suffered any loss of life but every day is important.”