The indefinite and alternating hunger strike launched in prisons to break the aggravated isolation on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its 22nd day.

Five prisoners are reported to have joined the hunger strike in Konya Ereğli T Type Closed Prison.

Prisoner İbrahim Sütçü told his family the following; “We are five persons in a ward. Each of us is in a group. Following the strike, the prison's arbitrary practices have increased. Newspapers are not circulated given to us."

While the name of one of the prisoners who participate in the strike couldn’t be learned, the others are as follows: Ömer Sipek, İbrahim Sütçü, Muhammet Hasan İbiş from Afrin and Faik Budak.

Sütçü dedicated to all prisoners the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, whom Nelson Mandela loved to read while in prison:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

 

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

 

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul.