MEP Jürgen Klute and a group of EMP will today visit the fifteen Kurdish hunger strikers in Strasbourg.

Today the European Parliament session meets in Strasbourg, so Klute suggested a solidarity action in their support.

The MEP asked colleagues to join him and Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana, South African Judge Mr Essa Moosa and other national MPs from several European countries and intellectuals, in their visit to the hunger strikers "to tell them that we received their political message and to ask them to suspend the fast".

The hunger strike was launched on 15 February to protest against Turkish political repression of Kurds, to demand more political freedoms for Kurdish people in Turkey, the restart of negotiations for a political solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey and the release of all political prisoners, including Öcalan. The hunger strikers (four of them have already been taken to hospital) are asking the European institutions and the Council of Europe to do their utmost to protect the Kurds' fundamental rights.