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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.)

General Secretary of Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) Bakkalcı said that there are 520 patient prisoners in the prisons. He defined the manner of Minister of Justice Engin as “unserious” as Engin stated that “the patient prisoners are given medical treatment 'meticulously' ”. Bakkalcı also expressed that such an approach deepened the pain.