Die Linke congress approved motion demanding the end of isolation

Delegates stood with photographs of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on hunger strike for 81 days.

Political parties in Germany expressed solidarity with the hunger strikes campaign to remove the isolation against the Kurdish People's People Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

At its Congress, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Die Linke in the town of Oberhausen on Saturday, passed a motion in support of hunger strikers.

At the end of the congress, delegates stood with photographs of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on hunger strike for 81 days.

Reiterating their solidarity with Leyla Güven and other hunger strikers, the delegates said that isolation should be removed before hunger strikers who are already at a critical point, go any worse.

Delegates then opened HDP flag expressing solidarity with the party that is struggling under very difficult conditions in Turkey.

The NRW Die Linke approved a motion at the congress demanding the release of all political prisoners in Turkey.

The Green Party and SPD deputies from NRW, the largest state in Germany, had also demanded to remove isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and to accept the demands of the hunger strikers.