Authorities threaten to force feed Grup Yorum hunger strikers Gökçek and Bölek

2020-03-11 13:16:33


	İSTANBUL - Around 03:00 on March 11, 2020, the House of Resistance, located in Istanbul’s Kucuk Amurtlu neighborhood, where members of the Grup Yorum, Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek, continue their Hunger Strike til Death(Death Fast) were attacked by police SWAT teams.

	 

	The house was stormed by heavily-armed SWAT teams who forced everyone inside the home, to lie down on the ground and then handcuffed them. SWAT teams members said the assault on the home was “aimed at conducting a search for evidences of conducted crime.”

	 

	After handcuffing everyone, the SWAT teams members forcibly took Ibrahim Göchek and Helin Bölek out of the house. During the assault, SWAT struck the mother of Helin Bölek – Aygul Bilgi and Kubra Sunnetci, who takes care of Helin. 

	 

	Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek are facing the danger of forced medical intervention. Whereabouts of Gökçek and Bölek remains unknown.