News Center-The women, who have been kept in the Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison, have started a three-day hunger strike to protest the isolation imposed upon PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish Armed Forces against the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in the Kurdistan Region and the ongoing rights violations in Turkey’s prisons.

The lawyers of the women prisoners said that the women started a hunger strike to protest the use of chemical weapons, which is a crime against humanity. The women prisoners also call for an investigation to be launched about the reports on the use of chemical weapons by independent delegation.