Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair and HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) MP for Hakkari, Leyla Güven, has been on hunger strike for a month to demand an end to the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan by the Turkish state.

A hunger strike in solidarity with Güven has been launched in Graz city of Austria on Saturday.

10 people are joining the hunger strike which is taking place at the Democratic Kurdish Society Center (DTKM). On the second day of the action, Kurdish and Austrian people have visited the hunger strikers.

A group from Graz SPO Youth Organization gave a message of solidarity with the Kurdish people.

DTKM Popular Council Co-president Halis Sever also made a speech and saluted the resistance of Leyla Güven. Highlighting the ongoing aggravated isolation on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Sever said the international conspiracy is also continuing.

The hunger strike was accompanied by the performance of local music group Koma Media and a popular meeting.