HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 164 of her hunger strike.

She went on hunger strike on 8 November 2018 demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan, who is imprisoned in İmralı Prison.

She has underlined that if laws are implemented, the attacks will be reduced, there will be a ray of hope and a possibility that peace is put back on the agenda.

As the government authorities did not initiate any democratic practices to this end, up to seven thousand political prisoners in prisons went on hunger strikes in groups with two week intervals. All demand that state abides by the provisions of existing laws and regulations in all prisons.

One of the hunger strikers is the young Kurdish activist Imam Sis, who went on hunger strike in Newport, Wales in December 2018.

In Strasbourg 14 Kurdish activists have been on hunger strike for 125 days.