Kurdish people living in Europe continue their actions in protest at the Turkish state terror within the scope of the war policies implemented by the AKP against the Kurds in North Kurdistan. Kurds took to the streets in Cologne and Berlin in Germany and Torino in Italy.

COLOGNE

Members of the Peace Mother’s Initiative and Viyan Women’s Assembly held a joint press conference in Cologne under the slogan with the participation of some a hundred women yesterday.

The participants first visited the tent set up for protest action going on since Monday and then held a press conference in front of the main entrance of the Dom Church, where they also opened a banner reading “We women say no to war”.

Women stressed that the pain did not have any particular language, religion or race and added that the women demanded the ending of deaths of both soldiers or guerrillas without making any difference. Women also underlined that no one must be a part of the AKP’s war.

BERLIN

Kurdish people held a three-day action, starting on Wednesday and ending on Friday, at Brandenburger Tor in the German city of Berlin in protest at the state terror in Cizre and the racist attacks launched against HDP buildings in Turkey and North Kurdistan. The activists distributed leaflets in German and English during the action.

TORINO

Kurdish people in Italian city of Torino protested the isolation of the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the attacks on the Kurdish people.

The action at Castello Square was supported by Torino Kurdish Culture Centre, Apini Liberi group and many other NGOs and political friends of Kurds. Torches in yellow, red and green colors were lit in the action while demonstrators also carried posters of Öcalan and flags of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), PYD (Democratic Union Party) and KCD-E (European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress).

Kani Miran on behalf of KCD-E made a short speech following one minute’s silence for all those who fell for Kurdistan and world revolution.

The crowd outside the RAI television building frequently chanted the slogans “Long Live leader Apo”, “Long live PKK”, “Long live YPG” and “Kurdistan will be a graveyard for fascism”.