DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has been on hunger strike for 113 days demanding the end of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Eight feminist women, including Firdevs Hoşer, Kamile Dinçsoy, Şengül Yüksel, Güliz Sağlam, Özgül Saki, Songül Aydın and Hatice Ödemiş, came to Amed to visit Güven. Yet the women were prevented by police from gathering in front of the HDP deputy’s home.

The women were asked why they came there and were asked for their identity to which they replied by asking whether “in Diyarbakir reigns a strict regime”.

Police did not allow women to proceed to the building without the identity control.

Güven: Visitors gave me morale

Firdews Hoşer said that they were happy to see Güven with such a high morale.

Visitors gave their presents to Güven which included towels sent by Zapatista women, in which was written ‘when a woman decide to struggle nothing can stop her’.

Güven stated that the solidarity visits gave her morale, and recalled that the first women to take to the streets when the State of Emergency (OHAL) was declared where Istanbul women.

Women should show themselves on 8 March

Güven told her visitors that her marriage was arranged when she was 16 and added: “After facing this challenge, I said to myself, I exist. Since the day I joined the struggle, although I have faced many obstacles, unlawfulness and violence, I have become more and more liberated.”

Noting that prisons are isolation mechanisms, Güven said: “They are trying to kill with  isolation. We started this resistance to say stop to this isolation.”

Güven added that women should come out in all their strength on 8 March, International Working Women's Day.