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An open letter from the hunger strikers in Turkey
Hunger-striking Kurdish MP Leyla Guven

WE ARE writing this letter to attract your urgent attention to the ongoing hunger strikes in and out of Turkish prisons and in other countries to protest the absolute isolation of Abdullah Ocalan at Imrali Island Prison.

The policy of isolation is legally, politically and morally unsustainable and should be lifted without any delay.

We expect and demand from the relevant international authorities to fulfill their responsibilities and take immediate action to end this sheer unlawfulness.

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