Frankfurt/Leipzig – In response to the Turkish army’s airstrikes on Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and northern Syria, several hundred people demonstrated in several German cities on Sunday.
As here in Frankfurt, demonstrations took place in several German cities on Sunday. © Hannes P. Albert/dpa
In Frankfurt police said in an initial estimate of around 200 participants who had moved peacefully from the main station towards the city centre.
In Berlin started a demonstration in Neukölln with 360 participants in the late afternoon, according to the police.
The Kurdish umbrella organization KON-MED had called protest rallies in several German cities, according to a statement by Civaka Azad – Kurdish Public Relations Center.
Also in Leipzig According to the police, around 200 people followed the call for a demonstration Dresden there were about 60.
A week after the deadly bomb attack in Istanbul, the Turkish military attacked Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and northern Syria on Sunday night.
The operations were directed against the banned Kurdish Workers Party PKK and the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG, Ankara’s Defense Ministry announced.
Turkey creates Kurdish groups for them Explosion killing six people in Istanbul on 13 November responsible.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 31 people have been killed in the airstrikes and dozens of people have been injured, some seriously.
Original post at 5:30pm, updated at 5:41pm
