Turkish police detained at least 38 demonstrators on Sunday who participated in the Istanbul rally of Newroz, a well-known Kurdish spring festival that took place on March 21, in Diyarbakir, Turkish news outlets reported on Sunday.
Thousands of people attended the Newroz celebrations held in Bakırkoy Bazaar Area under the motto “we will definitely win and break the isolation,” expressing solidarity with the ongoing hunger strikes aimed at lifting the isolation imposed on Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Ocalan has not been allowed to meet with his family members and lawyers for several years.
Leyla Guven, a female MP of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), initiated a partial and indefinite hunger strike on November 7, 2018, calling for the lifting of the isolation of Ocalan, enforced by the Turkish government. Since then, participation in the strike has been spreading among Kurdish inmates across Turkey, as well as among HDP lawmakers.
Three inmates in Turkish prisons and one person in Germany have also committed suicide recently to draw attention to the situation of Ocalan.
Celebrants taken into custody
The Turkish police detained at least 38 participants, including five children who were reportedly wearing t-shirts bearing “Kurdistan” or “Kobane” [a Kurdish city] words, or the images of Abdullah Ocalan and Zulkuf Gezen, who was one of the four who took their lives.
Some people were taken into custody because they were wearing red, yellow and green colors, which represent PKK.
The police detained a total number of 110 protestors during the Newroz festival, according to local media reports.
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