A Kurdish mayor in Turkey ended a nine-day hunger strike Thursday, held to protest the building of a controversial wall on the border with Syria, an official in her pro-Kurdish party said.
Ayse Gokkan, mayor of the town of Nusaybin in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, "stopped the hunger strike today [Thursday]. We think the protest has reached its goal," the official from the Peace and Democracy Party [BDP] told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Gokkan's office did not immediately reply to AFP's request for confirmation she had ended the hunger strike.
The mayor, who had been staging her hunger strike in a border minefield since October 30, said the barrier was a "wall of shame" that would divide Kurdish people.
On Thursday, thousands of protesters staged a demonstration in Nusaybin against the wall, in support of the mayor.
Nusaybin lies opposite to the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli.
Ayse Gokkan, mayor of the town of Nusaybin in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, "stopped the hunger strike today [Thursday]. We think the protest has reached its goal," the official from the Peace and Democracy Party [BDP] told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Gokkan's office did not immediately reply to AFP's request for confirmation she had ended the hunger strike.
The mayor, who had been staging her hunger strike in a border minefield since October 30, said the barrier was a "wall of shame" that would divide Kurdish people.
On Thursday, thousands of protesters staged a demonstration in Nusaybin against the wall, in support of the mayor.
Nusaybin lies opposite to the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli.
