On Wednesday morning, the Greek police stormed the Lavrio refugee camp near Athens, which is mainly inhabited by Kurds, and evicted the camp. As soon as the camp was cleared, demonstrators marched through Athens condemning the Greek state's cooperation with Turkish fascism.

The activists marched to the front of the Parliament under a massive police presence. In their speeches, activists and refugees criticized the raid on the camp and said it was part of a deal with NATO and Turkey. The activists loudly shouted slogans like "Long live the resistance of the Kurdish people".

For a long time, the Turkish government said that the camp, with its approximately 50 residents, was a "terrorist training camp" and a “retreat for the PKK and other left-wing groups" from Turkey and North Kurdistan.

The crackdown, said the activists, "appears to be part of NATO's policy of appeasement towards Turkey, to soften its opposition to Sweden joining NATO and to get results at the forthcoming NATO summit to be held in Vilnius on July 11-12."