Kurdish activist Şiyar Xelil taken to hospital

One of the hunger striker in Berlin, Şiyar Xelil, was taken to the hospital to receive emergency treatment today.

Xelil was one of the 4 Kurdish activists who went on hunger strike in Berlin to demand the end of isolation in İmralı. He was taken to hospital today after Mele Mustafa Tuzak. 

The activists, Ömer Bağdur, Cemal Kobanê, Şiyar Xelil and Mele Mustafa Tuzak had put an end to their actions last Sunday after the call issued by Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan through his lawyers.

Mele Mustafa Tuzak stayed 134 days on hunger strike, Şiyar Xelil 121, Cemal Kobanê and Ömer Bağdur 118.

On Sunday, after the end of the hunger strike, Xelil, who suffered severe abdominal pain, was given painkillers by the paramedics when they were called into NAV-DEM building. 

Erhan Fırat, the Co-Chair of the Free Kurdish Kurdistan Council, told ANF that they could not understand how the paramedics when called did not take immediate action.

İsmail Parmaksız, member of the hunger strike action committee, recalled that the ambulance officers who arrived on Sunday had the same paramedics who had come before to NAV-DEM and had insisted the hunger strikers being treated despite their refusal 

On Sunday, said Parmaksız, when the paramedics arrived that said that “the hunger strikers did not need to be taken to hospital. They said they were in good condition. However, we have seen that friends who have been taken to hospital by our own means have had serious health problems since yesterday.”