Seventeen children who were taken into custody by the Turkish state authorities in Mersin following the funeral of HPG (People's Defence Forces) guerrilla Sadık Kaya four mounths ago, have begun a hunger strike to protest against the fact that they have not even yet appeared before a judge.
The children had joined the funeral of Sadık Kaya on 6 October 2011 together with hundreds of other people.
They had been taken into custody after the funeral and accused of making propaganda for an illegal organization.
Speaking to ANF Emine Orhan, mother of jailed 16 years old Jiyan Orhan, said the kids are not in good condition.
"The kids - said EMine Orhan who visit her daugther her week - have been left in a cell, no judge have called them yet".
Mersin Human Rights Association (IHD) had released on Tuesday the worring reality of kids in prison. Indeed there are 130 kids under 18 in Mersin jail.
They are all charged with "throwing stones at the police" and "joining demonstrations".
The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had vowed to do "whatever it takes" to crash Kurdish resistance, "men, women, children, no matter what they are I would do whatever it takes".
Despite Turkey's pretence at reforming the law in relation to jailing children after the case of Berivan Sayaca was highlighted in the media, after an international campaign, in July 2012, according to the National Judicial Network in Turkey there are now a record 2,221 mostly Kurdish children in Turkey's jails!
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