NEWS CENTER - The action, in which the 33rd group took over the hunger strike initiated by the prisoners to end the aggravated isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the increasing violations of rights in prisons, has entered its 163rd day.

 

The indefinite-alternating hunger strike launched by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) prisoners on November 27, 2020, demanding an end to the aggravated isolation imposed upon PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who was held in İmralı F-Type High-Security Closed Prison, and an end to the increasing violations of rights in prisons, continues on the 163rd day with the 33rd group.

 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP Züleyha Gülüm brought the hunger strikes in prisons to the agenda of the assembly. HDP MP submitted a parliamentary question to the Presidency of the Assembly with the request of Justice Minister Abdlhamit Gül to be answered.

 

In the parliamentary question, which stated that the conditions of the prisoners got worse with the F-type prison system in Turkey and emphasized: "İmralı Prison was ignored and isolation was implemented. The unlawful practices initiated in İmralı Prison are wanted to spread to all prisons. In the parliamentary question, it was noted that violations against political prisoners have increased gradually since 2016, and that violations reached the highest level with the pandemic.