Four Kurdish activists had joined the hunger strike resistance demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan in Berlin. The four, Ömer Bağdur, Cemal Kobanê, Şiyar Xelil and Mele Mustafa Tuzak, called off the hunger strike on 26 May following Öcalan's message conveyed through his lawyers.

Tuzak was on hunger strike for 134 days, but the superficial actitude of the hospital meant he was only admitted a day after he ended the fast. Tuzak was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday and traveled to Duisburg.

Here he was welcomed by many Kurds but in the evening he fell ill again and was taken to Bochum hospital. Tuzak had dropped to 44 kilograms and on Tuesday he was diagnosed with a cyst in the liver and would remain in hospital.