Demonstration in London against Turkish raids
Demonstration in London against Turkish raids
#TwitterKurds has launched a demonstration in London against the Turkish air raids into the Kurdish Federal Region. The appointment is for today outside the Turkish Embassy (Belgrave Square) at 3pm (an earlier meeting point to join the demo is at 2pm at Manor House tube station).
In their press release the demonstration organizers underlined that "the Turkish states repression of the Kurdish people has taken an ominous turn as Turkish warplanes continue to bomb PKK controlled areas in Kandil Mountains and surrounding areas killing scores of Kurdish civilians and emptying numerous Kurdish villages."
From the beginning of the year the Turkish authorities have been intensifying attacks against the Kurdish people in all spheres of Kurdish political life.
Detentions almost doubled from the previous year and the historical election victory of the Kurds was marred by grenade attacks on the night of election celebrations and compounded by the Turkish state's continued imprisonment of 6 Kurdish political prisoners elected from jail.
The 36 elected pro Kurdish MPs were effectively locked out of parliament by the state whose real intentions has become blindingly clear.
The statement further says that "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has used a mixture of clever psychological warfare and criminalisation of the Kurds with a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political activists, surgically pinpointing and arresting the most active and effective leadership of the Kurdish Movement who now are incarcerated in Turkish jails".
Despite nightly bombardments and claims of over a hundred PKK casualties,PKK self defence forces of HPG report that the only casualties have been civilian casualties including families and children and point to the fact that most of their forces are operational inside Turkey.
KCK (Confederation of Kurdistan Communities) executive member, Murat Karayilan added that HPG up to date have only 5% of their forces engaged in operations and have warned Turkey that could change if Turkey continue with it's military intentions.
In their press release the demonstration organizers underlined that "the Turkish states repression of the Kurdish people has taken an ominous turn as Turkish warplanes continue to bomb PKK controlled areas in Kandil Mountains and surrounding areas killing scores of Kurdish civilians and emptying numerous Kurdish villages."
From the beginning of the year the Turkish authorities have been intensifying attacks against the Kurdish people in all spheres of Kurdish political life.
Detentions almost doubled from the previous year and the historical election victory of the Kurds was marred by grenade attacks on the night of election celebrations and compounded by the Turkish state's continued imprisonment of 6 Kurdish political prisoners elected from jail.
The 36 elected pro Kurdish MPs were effectively locked out of parliament by the state whose real intentions has become blindingly clear.
The statement further says that "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has used a mixture of clever psychological warfare and criminalisation of the Kurds with a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political activists, surgically pinpointing and arresting the most active and effective leadership of the Kurdish Movement who now are incarcerated in Turkish jails".
Despite nightly bombardments and claims of over a hundred PKK casualties,PKK self defence forces of HPG report that the only casualties have been civilian casualties including families and children and point to the fact that most of their forces are operational inside Turkey.
KCK (Confederation of Kurdistan Communities) executive member, Murat Karayilan added that HPG up to date have only 5% of their forces engaged in operations and have warned Turkey that could change if Turkey continue with it's military intentions.
