Kurdish hunger strikers wait for news from meeting of jailed leader - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

May 22, 2019

Leyla Guven, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker who has been on a hunger strike for more than four months, rests in her bed at her home in Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 20, 2019. Picture taken March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC1F50CE4990 — Leyla Guven, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who has been on a hunger strike, rests in her bed at her home in Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 20, 2019. — Reuters/Umit Bektas

Sabiha Temizkan, daughter of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for more than four months, adjusts her mother's pillow at their home in Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 20, 2019. Picture taken March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC1E573D6D20

Unmoved by government's overtures, Kurds continue hunger strike in Turkey

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC1EDE066F60

Erdogan equates PKK, pro-Kurdish opposition to court nationalist voters

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Pervin Buldan, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), speaks before starting a two-day hunger strike in support of jailed Kurdish lawmaker Leyla Guven's own hunger strike against the isolation of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in prison, at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC17525CE770

Kurdish politicians urge protesters to spare own lives in Turkey

Ayla Jean Yackley

Ayla Jean Yackley

A man holds a flag with a picture of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a gathering to celebrate Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year, in Istanbul, Turkey March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC1FB1A51280

Fate of jailed Kurdish leader questioned as Turkey shuns peace

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture