The Russian Kurdish Women's Movement (Tevgera Jinên Kurd a Navnetewî) submitted a petition to international institutions, in the US, Russia and the EU, regarding the hunger strikes launched by the prisoners in Turkey’s prisons to raise concern over the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.

The TJKN’s petition stressed that Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, who was taken prisoner on 15 February 1999 as a result of an international conspiracy, made great efforts for the solution of the Kurdish issue through peaceful and democratic means.

The petition stated:  "Turkey’s Kurdish denial has not yielded results. The Kurdish Freedom Movement continues by growing its struggle. The so-called democratic Europe has been silent in the face of the aggravated isolation imposed on the Kurdish people's leader, acting in accordance with the interests of Russia and other international powers. It is a well known fact that the aim of the international conspiracy is to destroy the Kurdish Freedom Movement and its leader. As Kurdish women living in Russia, we urge the international community to stop its policies targeting the 50 million Kurdish people and its leader and give the Kurdish people their rights.”