MORNING STAR ambassador Maxine Peake has called for a mass letter-writing campaign in solidarity with jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Guven.
The British actor launched Peace in Kurdistan’s (PIK) Letters for Leyla campaign today to show support for the former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP, who was jailed in Turkey last month for 22 years and three months on unproven terrorism charges.
PIK is calling for letters and cards bearing messages of support and solidarity to be sent to Ms Guven on January 25.
Ms Peake said: “I had the great honour of meeting Leyla Guven in her home during her epic hunger strike of February 2019.
WOMEN worldwide were urged by the Kongreya Star organisation today to support the resistance inside Turkish jails, as a rolling hunger-strike campaign entered its 27th day
Kongreya Star, a confederation of women’s organisations based in the Kurdish enclave known as Rojava in northern Syria, said that more must be done to support political prisoners refusing food.
Spokeswoman Berivan Ismael argued that the involvement of women was particularly important in pressing the hunger strikers’ demands for the release of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
She declared that freedom for Mr Ocalan, who has been held since 1999, would mean “emancipation for all women” and the liberation of the Kurdish people.