KURDISH hunger-striker Leyla Guven has written to the Plaid Cymru leader praising her support for their national liberation struggle.

In a moving letter to Leanne Wood AM the Kurdish MP expressed sisterly solidarity.

She wrote: “Men have started wars in the world and they continue to do so to this day but it will be us women who will lead the world to peace. We have that power.”

Ms Wood sent the letter ahead of a debate that was due to take place in the Welsh Assembly this evening.

The Welsh Nationalists have tabled a motion about “The Kurds in Turkey.”

If passed it could see Wales become the first nation worldwide to show its solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers.

The motion is the latest move by Plaid Cymru to support a Kurdish-Welshman from Newport, Imam Sis, who has entered day 94 of his hunger strike.

Mr Sis and Ms Guven are both refusing food in protest at Turkey’s solitary confinement of Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan on a prison island in the sea of Marmara.

Ms Guven has not eaten in four months and is nearing death.

Plaid Cymru AM and shadow minister for international affairs Delyth Jewell said the hunger strikers are “running out of time.”

“The Welsh government now has a Cabinet Minister for International Relations,” she noted.

“Surely it’s incumbent on the National Assembly and Welsh government to recognise and support the part a Newport man is currently playing in an international struggle for justice, equality and human rights?”

She added: “All we ask is for the Welsh government on behalf of the Assembly to write a letter to the [Council of Europe’s] committee for the prevention of torture calling for the committee to visit Imrali prison to assess the conditions of Abdullah Ocalan.”