Turkey - hunger strike of GroupYorum

 
ISTANBUL  | 11-02-2014 | Political music band Grup Yorum has announced that its members will go on hunger strike at the “Resist Kazova-DİH Pullover and Culture Centre” opened by workers of the occupied Kazova factory on 14 February.
The band will demand the removal of the ban on leaving the country imposed on its members following a series of detention and supervised release they have continuously faced so far.
In a statement about the planned hunger strike, Grup Yorum said that; “We have been singing songs for the attainment of a humane living for our peoples for 29 years now. We are being subjected to suppression but also resisting against all the repression and difficulties together with our people. We are growing as the cruel are dwindling down.”
(ANF)