Dozens of guards raided a women's ward and conducted arbitrary searches in the Bakırköy Closed Women's Prison in Istanbul.

According to the information obtained by the families of the prisoners, searches were carried out in the ward on Friday last week.

One of the political female prisoners said, “The guards behaved aggressively. While there were only 20 prisoners in the ward, more than 40 guards showed up including prison’s technicians.”

The guards messed up the ward during the search, the same prisoner said. “They even checked the medicine boxes, fruits and the refrigerator. They haven't taken us to the health checks for a year because of the coronavirus. Yet, 40-50 people entered the ward at once,” she reacted.

The prisoner also greeted the ongoing hunger strike resistance in Turkey’s prisons and added, "We celebrate March 8 for all working women, YJA Star guerrillas, PAJK prisoners and political prisoners on the occasion of March 8, International Working Women's Day."

The hunger strike resistance has been carried out to free Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, the prisoner emphasized and added, "We will continue our resistance on this basis."