Kurdish youngsters K. Ö., B.A. and Ramazan Altıntaş were imprisoned for commemorating Ayten Behçet, who carried out an action of self-sacrifice to protest the isolation of Öcalan in 2019, on the anniversary of her martyrdom.
The hunger strike resistance led by HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven to demand the end of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan spread to all prisons in Turkey in 2019 and 15 prisoners turned their hunger strike into a death fast.
Political prisoner Ayten Behçet carried out an action of self-sacrifice in Gebze Women's Closed Prison on 23 March as the hunger strike actions continued across the country.
5 young people, including 2 minors, who held a commemoration in Antep’s central Güzelvadi neighbourhood for Ayten Behçet, were detained for chanting slogans.
The detainees were referred to the courthouse after procedures at the Juvenile Department of the Police. While 2 of them were released on condition of judicial control, K.Ö. (16), B.A. (17) and Ramazan Altıntaş (21) were arrested and sent to prison.
