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Maxine Peake joins trade unionists' calls to free Abdullah Ocalan
The actor, who recently went on a delegation to Turkey, said meeting hunger-striking Kurdish MP Leyla Guven was ‘inspiring but harrowing’
Maxine Peake Labour and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a photocall after delivering the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, in August 2018
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MAXINE PEAKE and trade union leaders demanded freedom for imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and for solidarity with hundreds of hunger strikers across Turkey today.
The award-winning actor spoke at length about her experience on a recent delegation to Turkey at a London press conference.
Bringing attention to the plight of the left-wing MP Leyla Guven, who has been on hunger strike since November, Ms Peake said that it was “inspiring but harrowing” to meet Ms Guyven, who was “so ill but so full of life and determination.
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