JINHA

ANKARA - Çağlar Demirel, the MP of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), noted that we haven't received any news from wounded in Cizre and this is a highly worrisome. Çağlar said, "We must go to Cizre. We are worrying about their life. We don't know if they breathe, if the basement was collapsed. We just know that they cannot even drink water."

Three representatives in Turkey's Parliament, from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), started a hunger strike in protest of the Turkish state's broken promise to allow the wounded people in a Cizre basement to be evacuated on January 27 in Ministry of the Interior.Then it was moved to Parliament. On February 1, the HDP MPs Çağlar Demirel, Ahmet Yıldırım and Nihat Akdoğan have taken over the hunger strike. The hunger strike has continued in the HDP meeting room in Grand National Assembly of Turkey on the seventh day. MP Çağlar Demirel said, " We don't know what's going on in "basement of savagery". We are maintained the hunger strike to the wounded be evacuated from the basement."

12 days ago, as Turkish state forces maintained a heavy assault on the blockaded town of Cizre, a large number were wounded in the attacks. When those outside attempted to get medical access to the wounded, police and military attacks on the house only intensified. Çağlar said, "We will last the hunger strike until the wounded have been evacuated to the hospital with their safety guaranteed."

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