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Turkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage

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Hundreds of Kurdish detainees in Turkish prisons are carrying out a hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

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Open Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks

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The Democratic Nation Paradigm

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This text was translated from subtitles of a Youtube video in Arabic that has since been deleted, on 27 October 2016

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“Your Struggle is Mine”: Revolutionary Letters to Leyla Güven

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On February 11, HDP MP Leyla Güven, was on the 96th day of her hunger strike protesting against the isolation of the PKK’s (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan

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The theory and practice of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: an interview in Diyarbakir

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One of the undisputed achievements of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria is the advancement of women in social, economic, and political domains of life

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Why are 162 Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike?

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Sarah Glynn, committee member of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, explains the context behind a mass hunger strike in Turkish prisons

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Sinn Fein MEP calls for international action for Leyla Guven

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Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has called for international action in support of Kurdish politician Leyla Guven who is currently on hunger strike and is now in critical condition

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Solidarity with the Kurdish struggle… without Öcalan?

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The Kurdish movement is being attacked on all political, societal, military, and ideological levels. In the circles that we move in, people are conscious of the state repression against the movement in Europe

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