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Poilce Take Off Even Flowers on Yüksel Street on 65th Day of Hunger Strike

Poilce Take Off Even Flowers on Yüksel Street on 65th Day of Hunger Strike

Police have cleared the Human Rights Monuments where Gülmen and Özakça have been resisting for 185 days on Yüksel Street, four people have been detained.

12 May 2017 Beyza Kural

4 CHP MPs Go on Hunger Strike for 24 Hours for Gülmen, Özakça

4 CHP MPs Go on Hunger Strike for 24 Hours for Gülmen, Özakça

4 CHP MPs have gone on hunger strike for 24 hours to act in solidarity with academic Gülmen and teacher Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 64 days with the demand that they be reinstated to their jobs.

11 May 2017 Beyza Kural

Solidarity Message from David Harvey for Gülmen, Özakça on Hunger Strike

Solidarity Message from David Harvey for Gülmen, Özakça on Hunger Strike

Prof. Dr. David Harvey has said “I express my solidarity with my friends and colleagues in Turkey who are on hunger strike” in the video he released for Gülmen and Özakça who have been on hunger strike for 63 days.

Messages from Özakça, Gülmen on 63rd Day of Their Hunger Strike

Messages from Özakça, Gülmen on 63rd Day of Their Hunger Strike

While Özakça says “We need to focus on growing the hunger strike”, Gülmen stated “It is very nice that everyone trying to do something”.

Gün on Hunger Strike to Retrieve His Son’s Body

Gün on Hunger Strike to Retrieve His Son’s Body

Kemal Gün has been on hunger strike for 70 days to retrieve body of his son who was killed in airstrike in Dersim.

Hunger Strikes in Prisons Ended

Hunger Strikes in Prisons Ended

Prisoners arrested or convicted of PKK and PJAK trials have ended their hunger strike upon call by the Kurdistan Communities Union.

KCK Calls For an End of Hunger Strikes in Prisons

KCK Calls For an End of Hunger Strikes in Prisons

Kurdistan Communities Union Executive Council Presidency has stated: “We request ending the indefinite non-rotational hunger strike in the belief that that new topics which became main issues on the agenda be followed and that the struggle will continue with alternative ways and methods”.

Prisoners’ Families As Well Go On Hunger Strike in Diyarbakır

Prisoners’ Families As Well Go On Hunger Strike in Diyarbakır

Rotational hunger strike led by the families of the prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 56 days in prisons has started in Diyarbakır.

11 April 2017 Tansu Pişkin

HDP’s Prison Commission: 76 Prisoners on Hunger Strike

HDP’s Prison Commission: 76 Prisoners on Hunger Strike

HDP’s Prison Commission in its Hunger Strikes Report has declared that 76 prisoners in six prisons were on an indefinite and non-rotating hunger strike.

Message from HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş: We are Going on Hunger Strike

Message from HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş: We are Going on Hunger Strike

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş and party’s Hakkari MP Zeydan have declared to go on hunger strike due to “unlawful practices in Edirne Prison and no step being taken to stop hunger strikes”.

İHD: 33 Prisoners Including 5 Women on Hunger Strike for 42 Days

İHD: 33 Prisoners Including 5 Women on Hunger Strike for 42 Days

In a statement concerning hunger strikes, the Human Rights Association İstanbul Branch Commission for Prisons has demanded the rights violations be put an end to. 64 prisoners from four prisons have been on hunger strike for 21 days.

Detained HDP Advisor Olcay Çelik on Hunger Strike over 10 Days

Detained HDP Advisor Olcay Çelik on Hunger Strike over 10 Days

Five advisors of HDP MPs have been in custody for over 10 days. Of the advisors, Olcay Çelik is on hunger strike.

21 November 2016

Hunger Strike Ends Following Meeting with Öcalan

Hunger Strike Ends Following Meeting with Öcalan

It has been announced that the hunger strike has ended upon the message of Abdullah Öcalan be shared with public.

12 September 2016

Abdullah Öcalan’s Message to be Read Out in Diyarbakır

Abdullah Öcalan’s Message to be Read Out in Diyarbakır

Returning from İmralı, it is expected that Mehmet Öcalan will share the details of his meeting with Abdullah Öcalan after he meets 50 volunteers on hunger strike.

12 September 2016

Hunger Strike Spreads to Prisons

Hunger Strike Spreads to Prisons

PKK and PJAK members in prison will also join an indefinite hunger strike without rotation launched by 50 people in Diyarbakır last week demanding a meeting with Öcalan.

8 September 2016

50 Volunteers Begin Hunger Strike for Öcalan

50 Volunteers Begin Hunger Strike for Öcalan

50 volunteers including politicians and artists have begun an indefinite hunger strike without rotation, demanding a meeting with Öcalan within the framework of the legal rules.

5 September 2016

Women Kept in One-Person Cell on Hunger Strike

Women Kept in One-Person Cell on Hunger Strike

Another woman imprisoner has been taken near Fadık Adıyaman who has started hunger strike for being kept by herself in Tekirdağ Type T Closed Prison. Both women saying they are being “kept in lockdown” have went out on hunger strike.

19 April 2016 Ayça Söylemez

HDP Ends Hunger Strikes

HDP Ends Hunger Strikes

HDP has stated that the hunger strike did its part in bringing crime against humanity in “basement of horror” incident to country and world public attention and now will continue the struggle with different methods.

9 February 2016

HDP MPs' Hunger Strike Taken Over by Second Team

HDP MPs' Hunger Strike Taken Over by Second Team

A second team has taken over the hunger strike initiated by three MPs from Peoples’ Democratic Party requiring to provide help for the injured in Cizre. The hunger strike will continue in rotation until it is achieved to bring the injured and dead to the hospital.

2 February 2016

MPs on Hunger Strike: Don’t Hinder Ambulances

MPs on Hunger Strike: Don’t Hinder Ambulances

Three HDP MPs entering third day of the hunger strike by demanding wounded and bodies stuck in a basement in Cizre to be transferred have called for to not hinder ambulances to set off to carry out the transfer.

29 January 2016

MPs on Hunger Strike Call Government to Pull Their Weight

MPs on Hunger Strike Call Government to Pull Their Weight

HDP MPs continuing their hunger strike at Ministry of Interior for ambulances to arrive by wounded stuck in a basement in Cizre have stated that ambulances are blocked, and another injured lost his life.

28 January 2016

3 HDP MPs on Hunger Strike for Ambulance to Reach Injured

3 HDP MPs on Hunger Strike for Ambulance to Reach Injured

Three HDP MPs who got no results from their meetings with Ministry of Interior have started hunger strike.

27 January 2016

Alewis on Hunger Strike against Clashes

Alewis on Hunger Strike against Clashes

Indefinite alternate hunger strike began at Alewi Culture Center in Aalen province of Germany on January 7 to grow and perpetuate solidarity with Kurdish people.

8 January 2016 Füsun Erdoğan

Friend of Man on Hunger Strike: Evcan’s Condition Critical

Friend of Man on Hunger Strike: Evcan’s Condition Critical

Tamer Korkmaz staying in the same prison as convicted Osman Evcan staging a hunger strike due to not being given vegan food over 37 days wrote that Evcan has entered risky days, and added that “Ministry of Justice and prison administration is silent”.

16 December 2015 Ayça Söylemez

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Graduated from Kurdish Language Department, primary Kurdish teachers started an alternate hunger strike. “PM didn’t fulfill his promise. We are in the peace process and the promises should be fulfilled,” Yunus Aslan said.

27 August 2014 Nilay Vardar

Füsun Erdoğan’s Son Starts Hunger Strike

Füsun Erdoğan’s Son Starts Hunger Strike

Aktaş Erdoğan, the son of Füsun Erdoğan who has been sentenced to life within Turkey’s MLKP case, has started a 3-day hunger strike in order to protest the life sentence of his journalist mother.

Hunger Striker Deputies Spend Night At Parliament

Hunger Striker Deputies Spend Night At Parliament

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish deputies spent the night at the parliament hall within a hunger strike to protest the recent rejection of release request for jailed deputies.

18 December 2013

“Ayşe Gökkan Was Put Under Isolation For 9 Days”

“Ayşe Gökkan Was Put Under Isolation For 9 Days”

Nusaybin Mayor Ayşe Gökkan’s media advisor shared with bianet the story of 9-day long hunger strike and its aftermath.

8 November 2013 Ekin Karaca

Mayor Stops Hunger Strike As Construction Halts

Mayor Stops Hunger Strike As Construction Halts

Nusaybin Mayor Ayşe Gökkan stopped her 9-day hunger strike as authorities announced that they have halted the construction of a security wall on Turkey’s border to Syria.

7 November 2013

Hunger Strike in Van Prison

Hunger Strike in Van Prison

12 inmates from Van High Security Prison have launched a hunger strike, demanding improvement in medical treatments and food service - a protest that reached its 8th day.

20 May 2013 Ayça Söylemez

BDP Deputies to Start Hunger Strike

BDP Deputies to Start Hunger Strike

Idris Baluken, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Vice Chairman, announced that 8 BDP deputies will start hunger strike on Saturday and other deputies will join various protests after BDP's political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue did not yield any results.

9 November 2012 Ekin Karaca

“A Scream of Self-Inflicted Pain”

HUNGER STRIKES

“A Scream of Self-Inflicted Pain”

Metin Bakkalcı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV,) spoke to bianet about the ongoing hunger strikes initiated by 615 inmates to protest the obstacles that lie before the use of the Kurdish language and the continued isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK.)

22 October 2012 Ekin Karaca

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