The indefinite and non-alternate hunger strikes launched by PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and PAJK (Party of Free Women of Kurdistan) prisoners to end the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan continue.

Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Hakkari MP Leyla Guven had first announced her hunger strike on November 8. Following Guven, political prisoners announced that they will be going on indefinite and alternating hunger strikes in several prisons starting on November 27.

Afterwards, in a statement issued from prisons, it was announced that the first group would start an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike on December 16.

Between December 26 and January 5, the second and third groups joined in, raising the total number of hunger strikers to 226. Lawyers say the number is rising every day.  

The updated list of prisoners on indefinite and non-alternate hunger strikes by dates are as follows:

8 NOVEMBER

Diyarbakır E-Type Closed Prison: Leyla Güven.

16 DECEMBER

Gebze Women’s Closed Prison: Hacer Halil Yusuf, Ruhşan Bozan, Özlem Özdemir, Ayten Gülsüm, Özlem Söyler.

Kandıra F-Type No:1 Closed Prison: İbrahim Kaya, Umut Çamlıbel, Yusuf Başaran, Güven Süvarioğlu, Rıdvan Güven, Necla Atak.

Patnos L-Type Closed Prison: Mehmet Bozdağ, Atilla Coşkun Özer, Ömer Kabul, Abdullah Kızılkaya.

Elazığ No:1 High Security Closed Prison: Metin Serhat, Harun Alkan, Musa Candemir.

Elazığ No:2 High Security Closed Prison: Cengaver Aykul (transferred to Elazığ after going on hunger strike in Patnos)

Diyarbakır D-Type Closed Prison: Sercan Gümüş, Rıdvan Kaya, Nimetullah Cinkılıç, Hayati Üzmen, Cüneyt Aslan.

Van F-Type Closed Prison: Cihan Tamur, Barış Kahraman, Şahin Öncü, Azim Sökemen, Bahtiyar Kemal Hasan.

Diyarbakır E-Type Closed Prison: Evin Kaya, Kibriye Evren, Hilal Ölmez.

Trabzon Beşikdüzü T-Type Closed Prison: Ali Bektaş, Dilgeş Yaşar, Abdullah Aydın.

17 DECEMBER

Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison: Esma Başkale, Belgin Kanat, Zozan Kutum, Reyhan Coşmuşlu.

Tekirdağ No:2 F-Type Closed Prison: Ahmet Osman, Seyhan Kurt, Yakup Kaymaz.

Kandıra F-Type No:2 Closed Prison: Sadettin Yaşar, Turan Günana, Mesut Atış.

Edirne F-Type Closed Prison: Ramazan Çeper, Zerdeşt Oduncu, Adem Arslan.

Beşikdüzü T-Type Closed Prison: Özgür Gürbüz, Adem Öztürk, Cemal Narcı, İsmail Berkan, Hilmi Özsoy, Mazlum Özağar, Halil Temel.

20 DECEMBER

Burhaniye T-Type Closed Prison: Figen Şahin, Emine Kılıç, Gülistan Tekin, Çiğdem Şakar.

26 DECEMBER

Ödemiş T-Type Closed Prison: Uğur Çiçek, Abdurrahman Yılmaz, Mehmet Kaplan, Serhat Güzel.

Silivri No:9 Prison: Seyhan Çiçekli.

Silivri No:5 Prison: Zafer Sağlam, Abdulselam Akdoğan, Yusuf Bayram, Halil Ay, Şiyar Yıldırım, Hamza Doğrul.

Tekirdağ No:2 F-Type Prison: Serdar Şahin, Ahmet Sürme, Ümit Akgümüş, Ahmet Arif Yöyler, Roger Tirej Özalp.

Tekirdağ No:1 F-Type Prison: Sinan Çelik, Rıdvan Turan, Burhan Barut, Erhan Aydın, Ali İlhan Bayer.

İzmir (Aliağa-Şakran) No:2 T-Type Closed Prison: Mehmet Durak, Tanju Yıldırım, Nihat Ekmez, Yakup Güneş, Ramazan Atalay.

Şakran (İzmir) Women’s Closed Prison: Rahşan Aydın, Ebru Güden, Gülten Akgün.

Sincan Women’s Closed Prison: Süheyla Taş, Zeliha Ustabaş, Saliha Taşkesen.

Kırıkkale F-Type Closed Prison: Sedat Alçiçek, İsa İpekli, Davud Önder, Emrah Ubiç, Kerem İmrak, İsmet Akın.

Düzce T-Type Closed Prison: Süleyman Benzer, Mehmet Erbey.

Kırıklar No:1 F-Type Closed Prison: Erdal Polat, Abdullah Oral, Sami Öztürk.

Kırıklar No:2 F-Type Closed Prison: Ozan Alpkaya, Halis Dağhan.

Bafra F-Type Closed Prison: Abdullatif Teymur.

Elazığ No:2 Closed Prison: Ahmet Tekin, Serkan Eren, Yasin Güngör.

Bursa H-Type Closed Prison: Serhat Sezgin, Mithat Tunç, Salih Koyun, Metin Çakır, Hamdullah Acar, Ünal Özdağ, Mehmet Şirin Baycu, Ercan Gökçe, Sinan Gökçe, Süleyman Saydam, Mehmet Kılıç, Mehmet Yalçınkaya, Ersin Arıkan, Nurullah Yılmaz, İsmail Çetin.

Patnos L-Type Closed Prison: Saliha Cebe, Dilan Barin.

28 DECEMBER

Manisa T-Type Prison: Şemsettin Erdem.

5 JANUARY

Alanya L-Type Closed Prison: Mesut Canbey, Ramazan Sayan, Nevin Gökçe, Zelal Başboğa.

Bandırma No:1 T-Type Closed Prison: Siraç Keskin, Abdullah Kaya, Agit Yılmaz, Engin Okutucu, Şeyhmus Can, Zinar Doğan.

Bandırma No:2 T-Type Closed Prison: Serdar Taşkın, Ekrem Gün, Mikail Mungan, İnan Söylemez, Sipan Karabulut.

Balıkesir Kepsut Prison: Mazlum Cesur, Muhtesim Ertuğrul, Tarık Aliçi, Mehmet Aşkara.

Kayseri Bünyan T-Type No:2 Prison: Özkan Kart, Bülent Öztürk, M. Aydın Söğüt, M. Emin Akkuş, Emrullah Abay.

Kayseri Women’s Closed Prison: Berivan Bitmen, Maşallah Erbey, Merge Polat.

Şanlıurfa No:2 T-Type Prison: Uğur Toğyıldız, Selman Büyüktop, Ömer Kaya, Mahmut Öngör, Kemal Yiğit, Semra Akhan, Sabiha Ünder.

Elazığ F-Type No:1 Prison: İsa Eşsiz, Murat Ergen, Ergül Tuncay.

Silivri No:5 Prison: Edip Akyıldız, Cihan Demir, Hikmet Ölçer, İbrahim Özdaş, Hüseyin Yıldız.

Tarsus T-Type No:1 Prison: Erdal Emeç, Fesih Tekin, Deniz Özdemir, Mehmet Fatih Bingöl, Serhat Yıldırım, Murat Karaaslan, Halef Yiğit.

Diyarbakır T-Type No:1 Prison: Fırat Ertunç, Recep Bal, Mazlum Dilek, Adnan Yiğittekin and a prisoner by the name of Faruk.

Karabük T-Type Closed Prison: Seyfettin Kurt, Murat Kozat, Ali Haydar Elyakut.

Bayburt T-Type Women’s Closed Prison: Delila Roj Ekmen, Fatma Yıldırım, Sevgi Aka Gündüz.

Tarsus T-Type Women’s Closed Prison: Dilan Yıldırım, Menal Temel, Nurşen Tekin, Hatice Kaymak.

Tekirdağ F-Type No:2 Prison: Mazlum Selçuk, İsmet Taş.

Osmaniye T-Type No:1 Prison: Hasan Alan, Mikail Pelit, Mehmet Kılıç, Zinar Demir, Oktay Gül, Hasan Muammer İbiş.

Mardin M-Type Closed Prison: Bayram Demirhan, Vedat Duyuş, Mahsun Şen, Zana Yılmaz, Şerif Demirtaş, Barış Akkuş, Birdal Abay.

Adana Kürkçüler F-Type Closed Prison: İnan Akın, Harun Kaya, Yusuf Budak.

Manisa Akhisar T-Type Closed Prison: Bozan Açlan, Yorgun Bektaşoğlu, Metin Keleş.

Maltepe Closed Prison: Ersan Nazlır, Cesim Yıldırım.

Names of two female prisoners in Mardin are yet not available.

5 prisoners in Samsun Vezirköprü M-Type Closed Prison.

6 JANUARY

Şanlıurfa No:1 T-Type Prison: Sinan Çelik, Ali Erdem, Rıza Yüksekbağ, Muhammed İlgün, Enver Kanmaz."