14 July

On 12 September 1980, the Turkish state staged a fascist military coup to oppress the Kurds’ struggle for basic human rights and freedom in the face of the denial and prohibition of their existence, identity, language, and culture. Tens of thousands of Kurds and revolutionaries in Turkey were sent to jail. In Diyarbakir, the biggest city in Kurdistan, the state sought to bury the Kurds’ dreams and longings inside Diyarbakir Prison No. 5 with the use of vicious torture – as vicious as that in Auschwitz. Against this oppression, a group of Kurdistan freedom fighters started an unprecedented resistance movement for the basic human rights and freedom that every person in the world should possess. As an important part of this resistance, they went on indefinite hunger strike on 14 July 1982… (Camerimage)