On a death fast for 304 days: He is resisting to stay alive

  • actual
  • 14:11 16 April 2020
  • |
img
İSTANBUL - Sharing the information that their band member İbrahim Gökçek, who is on a death fast for 304 days is detoriorating day by day, Grup Yorum member Seher Adıgüzel said Gökçek is resisting to stay alive.
 
Grup Yorum members Helin Bölek and İbrahim Gökçek started hunger striking in the prison demanding the removal of bans on their concerts, removal of their members from the red bulletin wanted list and stopping the raids on İdil Culture Center, then they turned the hunger strike into a death fast. Helin Bölek lost her life on her 288th day. İbrahim Gökçek who has been on death fast for 304 days, continues his action.
 
Seher Adıgüzel, a member of the group, stated that the health condition of their friend İbrahim Gökçek is getting worse day by day.
 
THEY CHOSE TO KILL THEM
 
Stating that their legitimate demands are still not met, Adıgüzel said that Helin Bölek lost her life for these demands and İbrahim Gökçek is very angry about it. Adıgüzel, emphasizing that their demands are easy to meet, said: "But the AKP and the Ministry of Interior chose to kill them.  Ibrahim brother was upset that he lost his friend who resisted in his next room. Helin's death has exhausted him."
 
Adıgüzel reminding that Gökçek said: "“I was not given the right to life. After that point, I had to defend our right. I started a death fast as it is the highest form of anger", said: "Ibrahim wants to live. He is resisting to stay alive.  Concert bans imposed on a music group today will eventually turn into violating their right to life. İbrahim says he will resist until the end and he will continue to produce to his last breath. There is no change in his demands." 
 
Adıgüzel underlined that everyone should take responsibility to help İbrahim stay alive and pressure the Ministry of Interior, and said that Gökçek is making the same call as well. Adıgüzel also responded to AKP Group Vice President Özlem Zengin who said 'Those concerts are propagandizing terror, you don't see that'.
 
Adıgüzel stating that this discourse indicates that the government is stuck, said: "Actually, the government who does not want Grup Yorum to be on the agenda, brings Grup Yorum to agenda by banning their concerts and disregarding their right to life. Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu called us 'cannibals'. He is the cannibal. They are the ones who tried to abduct Helin's dead body. They tried to prevent us from burying Helin with a religious ceremony. They made us wash our friend in a car with cold water!"
 
Stating that the government did not allow to fulfill Helin's last will, said: "Helin wanted us to form a circle and dance the halay in case of her martyrdom. They did not allow us. We could not fulfill her last will."
 
 

View More Articles

20/06/2020
14:30 Prisoners not given water in Hilvan Prison
14:29 Kurdi who stopped Johnson's vehicle: Why are you selling arms to Turkey?
14:26 DBP: We greet HDP's march
10:55 Statement by the Federated Government of Kurdistan
10:54 HDP will bring the bans for the 'Democracy March' before judiciary
10:53 Response from the Council of Europe regarding trustees
10:52 Covid-19 balance sheet: 1214 new cases, 23 deaths
19/06/2020
17:14 10 people detained in Bingöl
15:42 Venice Commission: Appointments of trustees are against democratic principles
15:41 Mother detained with 10-day-old baby and 2-year-old daughter
15:40 Enthusiastic welcome to HDP marching for democracy in Urfa
15:40 Bar Associations are marching to Ankara
12:13 Egypt condemns TSK attacks
12:12 Police raids in Diyarbakır: 2 detained
12:10 Defendant aggravated life sentence for killing Merve Kotan
12:09 'The march unmasked the government'
12:08 Turkey to enforce partial curfews on nationwide exam days
09:38 Supreme Court rules for release of former HDP co-chair Demirtaş
09:17 Four detained in Ankara over HDP's "Democracy March"
09:11 Kurdish singer sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison
08:32 Covid cases increases to 184 thousand in Turkey
18/06/2020
16:59 Öcalan's lawyers applied to visit İmralı
12:26 A shepherd lost his life in TSK air attack
12:25 '70 people diagnosed with covid- 19 in prisons, 6 prisoners lost their lives'
12:24 Buldan: Struggle will continue until the people of Turkey are free to breathe
09:44 Masks made mandatory in İstanbul, Ankara and Bursa
09:43 Koca: Total loss of life increases to 4 thousand 861 in Turkey
09:41 Democracy march arrives in Diyarbakır
09:40 Ipekyolu Co-Mayors sentenced to prison
17/06/2020
16:59 6 years and 3 months prison sentence for KADEP party president
16:59 Sur Co-Mayor Buluttekin released from prison
16:58 Prison sentence to Journalist Canözer
16:58 National unity statement from PYNK and ENKS: We have reached an agreement
12:31 Journalist Alankuş acquitted
12:22 Iraqi Army takes action against TSK's attacks
11:25 Oluç: The problem will not be solved by bombing Shengal and Maxmur
11:08 Air mobility in Diyarbakır
11:07 Call to CPT and Amnesty for sick prisoners
11:06 Statement from Ebdi regarding the national unity of the Kurds
11:05 İHD: Right to polical activity and marching can not be banned
11:05 Sancar visits Van Bar: This judiciary is not a judiciary
09:56 Arrested for events they joined as kids
09:30 Request of prison sentence for the police who killed Kurkut
09:26 Case number increases to 181 thousand in Turkey
16/06/2020
14:57 Simultaneous shelling from Iran and Turkey
14:56 HDP will be welcomed en masse in Diyarbakır
14:55 Events and demonstrations banned in İstanbul for 15 days
14:54 Attorneys applied to visit İmralı
14:53 Esenyurt under police blockade before HDP event
11:21 Aydeniz: Best response to attacks is national unity