Turkish President Erdoğan is in New York to speak in the UN and hold several political meetings. Activists refuted Erdoğan’s claims with documents and photographs during his speech in the UN.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spent last week in New York to speak in the United Nations General Assembly, meet with NGOs and hold several political meetings. During his speech in the UN, Erdoğan was protested outside the building.
During Erdoğan’s UNGA speech, a truck rented by the Kurdish American Association with LED screens on three sides informed the protesters and press members from dozens of countries about the recent events in Turkey with pictures and written statements. The photographs and texts pointed out the long-standing collaboration between Fethullah Gülen and Erdoğan and underlined that thousands of people were fired, academics, teachers, journalists and writers were prosecuted. Photographs and statistics from the massacres and destruction Erdoğan and the AKP government have caused in the Kurdish lands since summer 2015 were also presented to the press and protesters from different countries.
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The protestors underlined that despite what Erdoğan said in his UN speech, the Turkish government supported ISIS and other radical groups in Syria for a long time, and the invasion they call “intervention” primarily aims to take the regions under YPG and YPJ control away from the Kurds. The truck circled the United Nations Headquarters for hours and was met with great interest from protestors from dozens of countries and hundreds of members of the press. Journalists walking in the middle of the street to record the truck occasionally argued with the police.
