HUNGER-STRIKING in Turkish prisons celebrated a huge victory for democracy today as they called off their action after seven months following a statement from jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian Leyla Guven, who started the hunger-strike campaign in November in protest at Mr Ocalan being held in isolation, declared that “resistance has prevailed” as she hailed the collective action by 7,000 largely Kurdish political prisoners in Turkish jails.

However, she warned that her “fight against the isolation continues,” despite having ended her fast.