Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Amed Provincial Organization was set to make a press statement today to draw attention to the hunger strikes in Turkey’s prisons that have been going on for 118 days to demand an end to the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Imrali Island Prison in the Sea of Marmara.

HDP and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) executives, members and administrators of the Association for Solidarity with Families of Prisoners (TUAY-DER) gathered at the Koşuyolu Park Human Rights Monument in Bağlar district to make a press statement. The group that was encircled by the police at two different points at the park entrance.

HDP Amed provincial branch deputy co-chairperson İrfan Söner negotiated with the police for a while to make a statement. The police did not allow the statement because the words "isolation and hunger strike" were included in the text.

Thereupon, the two groups surrounded by the police drew attention to the isolation and hunger strike by staging a sit-in. The groups protested the police intervention with applause and then dispersed.