Imprisoned DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Guven has been on a hunger strike for 15 days to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Guven went on an unlimited hunger strike to protest the isolation imposed upon Öcalan, which she calls “a crime against humanity” and as she started her protest, she said: “This isolation is imposed upon not a person but a whole people. And I, as a member of that people, accept to die for this.”

Reports say the protest has started to take its toll on Guven, who is currently 54 years old.

Two-day long hunger strikes were held in Amed, Hakkari, Van, Adana and Urfa on November 17-18 following Guven.

The protests demand an end to the isolation imposed upon Öcalan and call on the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to fulfill their duties.

HUNGER STRIKE IN HEWLER ON DAY 2

The hunger strike led by the HDP Southern Kurdistan Representative is on day 2.

The group that went on a hunger strike in the HDP Hewler Offices spent the night in the party building and various representatives from political parties and institutions, as well as the people, visited the hunger strikers to show support.

Representatives from Zahmetkêşan Parti (Laborer’s Party), Kurdistan Unity Party (Rojava) and Bizûtnawa (Islami Movement) who are from Rojava but live in Hewler visited the hunger strikers in the HDP Hewler Offices.

The group will turn over the hunger strike to another group following a press conference to be held tomorrow.