TURKISH police attacked mourners with water cannons today preventing them from attending the cemetery where Zulkuf Gezen was taken in the night following his reported suicide in Tekirdag prison yesterday.

The political prisoner was one of the thousands on hunger strike in jails across Turkey in protest against the continued isolation of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Turkey’s Prosecutor’s Office stated that he committed suicide by hanging himself with a washing line in a bathroom at the prison late yesterday denying his action was “for a cause.”