2,000 People March in London in Support of Kurdish Hunger strikers in Turkey

Paul Burnham
Ekurd.net
November 12, 2012

On Sunday, 11th November, more than 2,000 Kurds marched five miles across North London in solidarity with the Kurdish hunger strikes in Turkish prisons, which have reached their 61st day. The hunger strikes are reaching a critical stage, and some hunger strikers may be near death.

The 680 hunger strikers include elected representatives who have been jailed under the repressive policies of Turkish Prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They are demanding Kurdish language rights, and the end of the isolation in jail of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), to help to negotiate a political settlement to the Kurdish Question. Other Kurds have joined the strike by refusing food in solidarity, including MPs belonging to the pro-Kurdish BDP (peace and democracy) party.

The fifteen to twenty million Kurds in Turkey have faced decades of oppression. Turkey is a key ally of the USA and Britain, and Turkey’s policies towards the Kurds have only been sustained with tacit US and British support.

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This article was posted: Monday, November 12, 2012 at 5:01 pm

Tags: activism, food, foreign affairs, health

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