Kurds and their friends have taken to the streets in Sydney, Australia today in protest at the Turkish state’s genocidal war against the Kurdish people in various parts of Kurdistan.

Demonstrators gathered at the Town Hall Square where they protested against the deadly attacks of the Turkish state claiming more and more lives from the Kurdish people on daily basis.

The Organising Committee made a statement and emphasized that the Turkish state’s occupation operation was not only directed against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) but instead sought to occupy the whole of Kurdistan. “There is an attempt to commit a genocide against our Yazidi (Êzîdî) people in Shengal (Sinjar) and to eliminate all the achievements of the Kurdish people," it said.

The statement also condemned the silence of the USA, Russia and European states on Turkey’s occupation attacks.

Demonstrators unfurled banners condemning the Turkish massacre of civilians and displayed images of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan and flags of the YPG/YPJ (People’s/Women’s Defense Units).