Mass hunger strike in Turkish jails enters 62 days

The hunger strike, which activists started in Turkish prisons for more than two months, continues to demand the physical freedom of leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Mass hunger strike in Turkish jails enters 62 days
27 January, 2024   11:21
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On October 10 of last year 2023, a global campaign was launched in 74 centers around the world under the slogan “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan, the political solution to the Kurdish issue.” In this context, a series of events began in northern Kurdistan and Turkey to support this campaign.

Under the slogan of the same campaign, a number of activists in Turkish prisons in Turkey and northern Kurdistan began a hunger strike on the 27th of last November.

The event will end next February 15.

In a related context, Medvan, Amed, Merdin, Mersin, Adana, Istanbul and Izmir are witnessing the activities of justice sit-ins under the slogan “We will break isolation for the sake of justice, and we will be the voice of the prisons.

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