DİYARBAKIR – Sultan Aksoy (80) who began a hunger strike for solidarity with prisoners on indefinite hunger strike without rotation stated “ I couldn’t stay at home. We are not on helpless situation. We need to resist even if there is death. Because we will be the winner.”



Prisoners are continuing the indefinite hunger strike without rotation since 58 days. Families of prisoners began hunger strike in Diyarbakır, İzmir,İstanbul and Ankara while prisoners’ medical conditions reached to critical point. Sultan Aksoy is one of the people who on hunger strike for solidarity despite her age (80) and medical conditions.

“ When I see the families will begin a hunger strike for solidarity on TV, I thought that I need to be there as well. My family ‘ It is too hard and you can’t do this’ told to me. But I didn’t listen to them and I called my imprisoned son and told him “I will begin a hunger strike for prisoners on hunger strike”. Aksoy began a hunger strike despite her age and medical conditions. “ We are not on helpless situation. We need to resist even if there is death. Because we will be the winner” says Aksoy and gives hope to everyone on hunger strike. Aksoy also mentions she never feel hopeless even she lived great pains at the past years. Aksoy as the oldest person on hunger strike gives hope to the around with red gillyflower.



Mother Aksoy reminds she has already been on hunger strike at the past for three times. “ I had begun a hunger strike on 1995 to protest prisons’ conditions for 13 days. I never took step backwards despite I was threatened and taken into custody. I had to migrate to Diyarbakır from Kızıltepe county of Mardin on 1994 because I was oppressed and threatened by police and soldiers many times. My son Mehmet Zeki Aksoy who was newspaper distributer was killed on 1994 and a year later my husband Mehmet Şerif Aksoy was killed.So I fulfilled many things in my 80 years life. Therefore I couldn’t stay at home. We lived many pains. They are locked down our leader as they did before. We as Kurds have lived many pains but we never gave up. We are struggling for peace since Kenan Evren’s coup ( 1980). We struggled for peace for our children for years. State slaughtered my son and husband and jailed my two sons” said mother Aksoy.