Thousands gathered in Dêrik and Girkê Legê in the Qamishlo Canton for the May 26 Day Against Turkish State Invasion and protested the Turkish state’s invasion attacks in various centers throughout Kurdistan.

QAMISHLO

Thousands gathered in Qamishlo’s Dêrik and Girkê Legê districts for the May 26 Day Against Turkish State Invasion and protested the Turkish state’s invasion attacks with marches.

DÊRIK

Kurds, Arabs and Syriacs in Dêrik gathered in the Azadî Square to protest the Turkish state’s continued invasion attacks in various centers in Kurdistan. The crowd carried posters of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the martyrs, and chanted slogans condemning the Turkish state’s massacre policies.

Shops were closed in the district during the march that continued up to Martyrs’ Square. A minute’s silence was held there for the martyrs of the freedom struggle, and a statement was read in the name of the Preparation Committee. The statement stressed that the invading Turkish state trampled all legal and humane values in their attacks against the Kurdish people.

The protesters chanted their fury against the invasion.

GIRKÊ LEGÊ

The crowd gathered by the entrance of the district in Girkê Legê to protest the invading Turkish state’s attacks, and started to march from there. Protesters chanted their fury against the inhuman practices and the invasion attacks by the Turkish state against Afrin during the march that continued up to the district center.

Democratic Union Party (PYD) Co-chair Ayşê Hiso spoke in the district center after a minute’s silence, and stated that the resistance of Northern Syrian peoples has voided all plans. Kongreya Star administrator Menîfe Hisên protested the silence of the international community in the face of Turkish state invasions.

The protest was concluded with slogans.