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ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) poses together with personnel who assigned for G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey on November 16, 2015. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
Mehrere Dutzend Menschen haben sich an einer Kundgebung am Fuße des Berliner Brandenburger Tores beteiligt, um die Belagerung und die Angriffe der türkischen Polizei auf die Stadt Silvan zu verurteilen. Zudem wird Freiheit für den PKK-Führer Abdullah Öcalan gefordert.
Die Protestierenden sehen die Auseinandersetzungen in Silvan in einer Reihe mit Angriffen des türkischen Staates auf Kurden und kurdische Organisationen seit Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogans AKP ihre absolute Parlamentsmehrheit verloren hatte. Im Gegenzug hat auch die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK ihre Waffenruhe aufgekündigt und turkische Einrichtungen angegriffen.
Auf der Kundgebung wird auch dem Schicksal der Jesiden im irakischen Shingal gedacht. Die Jesiden sehen sich massiver Gewalt ausgesetzt, seit der sogenannte Islamische Staat ihr Gebiet im Irak überrannt hat. Zur Zeit versuchen kurdische Milizen den IS mit einer Großoffensive aus dem Shingal zurückzudrängen.
Kurdish emigres protest Paris murders at Turkish & French embassies : London 11.01.2013
On 11.01.2013 Kurdish emigres in London protested at the Turkish embassy and then marched to the nearby French embassy to protest about the shocking mass murder on 09.01.2013 in Paris of three female Kurdish political activists including PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz in what French police believe to be an execution a targeted assassination. The bodies of the three women - Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress’ (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doan, political activist Leyla Söylemez and Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) co-founder and Women's Movement organiser Sakine Cansız - were discovered behind several combination-locked doors in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris on Wednesday by friends who had been trying since the previous evening to contact the women and who had broken into the centre after discovering bloodstains on the outer doors.
Very shortly after French police were called to the scene (and with what many claim to be suspicious haste), Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party claimed that the murders were the result of “an internal feud” within the PKK. Celik did not offer any evidence to substantiate his assertion, yet also went on to suggest that the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks which have been taking place in the notorious high security prison on mralı Island between PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan - sentenced to death for treason against the Turkish state in 1999 but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when Turkey was forced to abolish the death sentence as part of it's application to join the EU - and the Turkish government.
The PKK have waged an often violent war against the Turkish government for the last 34 years as part of their campaign to establish an autonomous Kurdish enclave in South-East Turkey. Kurds make up almost 20% of the Turkish population, yet are forbidden by law to even speak their own language and have suffered greatly under Turkish suppression. Since the insurrection began in 1978 it is estimated that over 40,000 people on both sides have lost their lives in violent actions perpetrated in this conflict, and even though the PKK has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, NATO, Syria and others, the cause of Kurdish nationalism enjoys a huge level of support in the region. Turkish authorities have been concerned about PKK fighters entering Turkey from the autonomous Kurdish enclave in Northern Syria.
Kurdish populations are present in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and have experienced many decades of suppression by their respective states as the Kurds attempt to loosely re-establish their traditional Kurdistan, eradicated during the Ottoman reign, and it is against this long background of armed struggle that has seen large numbers of ethnic Kurds fleeing to Europe to find sanctuary. The Kurdish people I spoke to in Haringey last night said that they no longer feel safe anywhere in Europe after this execution which they lay firmly at the door of what they describe as the "dark, ultra-nationalistic shadow government" operating behind the scenes in Turkey who are violently opposed to any form of settlement or discussion with the Kurds.
Huddled around tables in the large hall adorned with photographs of fallen comrades and a large centrepiece display of their political figurehead, Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurds were subdued and in a measured, reflective mood. During the day it had been established by French police that the women had all been shot in the head through the throat using weapons with suppressors (silncers), and it is initially thought that there was possibly more than one gunman. There was no sign of forced entry to the building, so it seems that they were known to at least one of the women - two of whom were slaughtered as they were organising suitcases for their journeys back to Belgium and Germany.
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Rund 50 Kurden demonstrieren auf dem Breitscheidplatz am Fuße der Gedächtniskirche gegen die anhaltende Aggression der türkischen Regierung gegen Kurden, die zu bürgerkriegsähnlichen Zuständen in Städten wie Cizre und Diyarbakır geführt haben.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) poses together with personnel who assigned for G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey on November 16, 2015. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
17/11/2021. El presidente de la República de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recibe al presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, a su llegada al Palacio Presidencial.
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A representative from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office greets the President of Turkey RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN at The Grove in Watford today, the 4th December 2019.
The UK welcomes NATO Heads of State and Government to London on 3rd – 4th December 2019 for a Leaders’ Meeting to mark 70 years of the Alliance.
Established in 1949 with 12 founding members, NATO is now an alliance of 29 countries. At the heart of NATO is collective defence, set out in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO’s founding Treaty.
The UK is one of NATO’s 12 founding members and London was home to its first headquarters.
Mehrere Dutzend Menschen haben sich an einer Kundgebung am Fuße des Berliner Brandenburger Tores beteiligt, um die Belagerung und die Angriffe der türkischen Polizei auf die Stadt Silvan zu verurteilen. Zudem wird Freiheit für den PKK-Führer Abdullah Öcalan gefordert.
Die Protestierenden sehen die Auseinandersetzungen in Silvan in einer Reihe mit Angriffen des türkischen Staates auf Kurden und kurdische Organisationen seit Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogans AKP ihre absolute Parlamentsmehrheit verloren hatte. Im Gegenzug hat auch die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK ihre Waffenruhe aufgekündigt und turkische Einrichtungen angegriffen.
Auf der Kundgebung wird auch dem Schicksal der Jesiden im irakischen Shingal gedacht. Die Jesiden sehen sich massiver Gewalt ausgesetzt, seit der sogenannte Islamische Staat ihr Gebiet im Irak überrannt hat. Zur Zeit versuchen kurdische Milizen den IS mit einer Großoffensive aus dem Shingal zurückzudrängen.
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Turchia, 11/12/2014 - Stretta di mano del Presidente del Consiglio Renzi con il Presidente della Repubblica di Turchia, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, presso il Palazzo Presidenziale.
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ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 14: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Senegalese President Macky Sall (L) pose before they sign bilateral agreement after a bilateral meeting within the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 14, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. The 2015 G-20 Leaders Summit will be held in Antalya on November 15-16, 2015. Cem Oksuz / Anadolu Agency
Kurdish emigres protest Paris murders at Turkish & French embassies : London 11.01.2013
On 11.01.2013 Kurdish emigres in London protested at the Turkish embassy and then marched to the nearby French embassy to protest about the shocking mass murder on 09.01.2013 in Paris of three female Kurdish political activists including PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz in what French police believe to be an execution a targeted assassination. The bodies of the three women - Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress’ (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doan, political activist Leyla Söylemez and Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) co-founder and Women's Movement organiser Sakine Cansız - were discovered behind several combination-locked doors in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris on Wednesday by friends who had been trying since the previous evening to contact the women and who had broken into the centre after discovering bloodstains on the outer doors.
Very shortly after French police were called to the scene (and with what many claim to be suspicious haste), Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party claimed that the murders were the result of “an internal feud” within the PKK. Celik did not offer any evidence to substantiate his assertion, yet also went on to suggest that the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks which have been taking place in the notorious high security prison on mralı Island between PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan - sentenced to death for treason against the Turkish state in 1999 but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when Turkey was forced to abolish the death sentence as part of it's application to join the EU - and the Turkish government.
The PKK have waged an often violent war against the Turkish government for the last 34 years as part of their campaign to establish an autonomous Kurdish enclave in South-East Turkey. Kurds make up almost 20% of the Turkish population, yet are forbidden by law to even speak their own language and have suffered greatly under Turkish suppression. Since the insurrection began in 1978 it is estimated that over 40,000 people on both sides have lost their lives in violent actions perpetrated in this conflict, and even though the PKK has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, NATO, Syria and others, the cause of Kurdish nationalism enjoys a huge level of support in the region. Turkish authorities have been concerned about PKK fighters entering Turkey from the autonomous Kurdish enclave in Northern Syria.
Kurdish populations are present in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and have experienced many decades of suppression by their respective states as the Kurds attempt to loosely re-establish their traditional Kurdistan, eradicated during the Ottoman reign, and it is against this long background of armed struggle that has seen large numbers of ethnic Kurds fleeing to Europe to find sanctuary. The Kurdish people I spoke to in Haringey last night said that they no longer feel safe anywhere in Europe after this execution which they lay firmly at the door of what they describe as the "dark, ultra-nationalistic shadow government" operating behind the scenes in Turkey who are violently opposed to any form of settlement or discussion with the Kurds.
Huddled around tables in the large hall adorned with photographs of fallen comrades and a large centrepiece display of their political figurehead, Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurds were subdued and in a measured, reflective mood. During the day it had been established by French police that the women had all been shot in the head through the throat using weapons with suppressors (silncers), and it is initially thought that there was possibly more than one gunman. There was no sign of forced entry to the building, so it seems that they were known to at least one of the women - two of whom were slaughtered as they were organising suitcases for their journeys back to Belgium and Germany.
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Zum dritten Mal protestiert der Berliner Landesverband der Piraten vor der Botschaft der Türkei in Berlin für Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit. Anlass sind die Diskussionen um den satirischen Beitrag des ARD-Magazins "extra3", welches zur Einbestellung des deutschen Botschafters in der Türkei geführt hat, sowie die Anzeige von Recep Tayyip Erdogan gegen den deutschen TV-Moderator Jan Böhmermann. Mit letzterem solidarisieren sich die Berliner Piraten ausdrücklich. Überschattet wird die Kundgebung von der erst Stunden zuvor bekannt gegebenen Entscheidung der Bundesregierung ein Verfahren wegen "Beleidigung eines Staatsoberhauptes" zuzulassen.
Unter den Rednern sind der Berliner Landesvorsitzende Bruno Kramm, die ehem. Mitarbeiterin von RT Deutsch und jetzige Piraten-Kandidatin Lea Frinds und ihr Lebensgefährte Marsili Cronberg. Außerdem das Mitglied des Abeordnetenhauses Simon Kowalewski.
Teilgenommen haben ebenfalls Kurden und Jesiden.
Rund 300 Menschen beteiligen sich in Berlin Mitte an einer Demonstration vom Brandenburger Tor zum Bebelplatz gegen den türkischen Präsidenten Erdogan. Die Anhänger der türkischen HDP und der syrisch-kurdischen PYD, YGP und YPJ kritisieren die Verhaftung von HDP-Politikern, Journalisten, sowie die massenhafte Schließung von Medien und die Massenentlassungen infolge des Putschversuches.
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Rund 800 Türken versammeln sich am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, um gegen Terror zu protestieren. Gemeint sind dabei Gruppen wie die PKK, die syrisch-kurdische PYD und Daesh. Die Teilnehmer waren überwiegend glühende Anhänger des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Dieser wurde auch in den Redebeiträgen gelobt. Vereinzelt wurde von Teilnehmern der Wolfsgruß der ultra-nationalistischen, rechtsradikalen Grauen Wölfe gezeigt.
Die Polizei sperrte den Bereich ab, um ein Aufeinandertreffen mit einer zeitgleich stattfindenden kurdischen Gegenkundgebung zu verhindern.
Mehrere Dutzend Menschen haben sich an einer Kundgebung am Fuße des Berliner Brandenburger Tores beteiligt, um die Belagerung und die Angriffe der türkischen Polizei auf die Stadt Silvan zu verurteilen. Zudem wird Freiheit für den PKK-Führer Abdullah Öcalan gefordert.
Die Protestierenden sehen die Auseinandersetzungen in Silvan in einer Reihe mit Angriffen des türkischen Staates auf Kurden und kurdische Organisationen seit Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogans AKP ihre absolute Parlamentsmehrheit verloren hatte. Im Gegenzug hat auch die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK ihre Waffenruhe aufgekündigt und turkische Einrichtungen angegriffen.
Auf der Kundgebung wird auch dem Schicksal der Jesiden im irakischen Shingal gedacht. Die Jesiden sehen sich massiver Gewalt ausgesetzt, seit der sogenannte Islamische Staat ihr Gebiet im Irak überrannt hat. Zur Zeit versuchen kurdische Milizen den IS mit einer Großoffensive aus dem Shingal zurückzudrängen.
Mehrere hundert Kuren protestieren in Berlin gegen die anhaltenden Angriffe des türkischen Militärs und der Polizei gegen kurdische Städte. Die Demonstration führt vom Potsdamer Platz zum Brandenburger Tor.
Die Teilnehmer und Redner verurteilen die Politik und das Vorgehen des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan und seiner AKP-Regierung als terroristisch.
Vereinzelt gibt es Sympathie-Bekundungen für die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK. Am Ende gab es mindestens eine Festnahme, offensichtlich wegen einer Fahne mit dem Porträt des Führers der PKK, Abdullah Öcalan.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) poses together with personnel who assigned for G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey on November 16, 2015. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
Mehrere hundert Kuren protestieren in Berlin gegen die anhaltenden Angriffe des türkischen Militärs und der Polizei gegen kurdische Städte. Die Demonstration führt vom Potsdamer Platz zum Brandenburger Tor.
Die Teilnehmer und Redner verurteilen die Politik und das Vorgehen des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan und seiner AKP-Regierung als terroristisch.
Vereinzelt gibt es Sympathie-Bekundungen für die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK. Am Ende gab es mindestens eine Festnahme, offensichtlich wegen einer Fahne mit dem Porträt des Führers der PKK, Abdullah Öcalan.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) poses together with personnel who assigned for G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey on November 16, 2015. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
Mehrere hundert Kuren protestieren in Berlin gegen die anhaltenden Angriffe des türkischen Militärs und der Polizei gegen kurdische Städte. Die Demonstration führt vom Potsdamer Platz zum Brandenburger Tor.
Die Teilnehmer und Redner verurteilen die Politik und das Vorgehen des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan und seiner AKP-Regierung als terroristisch.
Vereinzelt gibt es Sympathie-Bekundungen für die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK. Am Ende gab es mindestens eine Festnahme, offensichtlich wegen einer Fahne mit dem Porträt des Führers der PKK, Abdullah Öcalan.
Mehrere Dutzend Menschen haben sich an einer Kundgebung am Fuße des Berliner Brandenburger Tores beteiligt, um die Belagerung und die Angriffe der türkischen Polizei auf die Stadt Silvan zu verurteilen. Zudem wird Freiheit für den PKK-Führer Abdullah Öcalan gefordert.
Die Protestierenden sehen die Auseinandersetzungen in Silvan in einer Reihe mit Angriffen des türkischen Staates auf Kurden und kurdische Organisationen seit Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogans AKP ihre absolute Parlamentsmehrheit verloren hatte. Im Gegenzug hat auch die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK ihre Waffenruhe aufgekündigt und turkische Einrichtungen angegriffen.
Auf der Kundgebung wird auch dem Schicksal der Jesiden im irakischen Shingal gedacht. Die Jesiden sehen sich massiver Gewalt ausgesetzt, seit der sogenannte Islamische Staat ihr Gebiet im Irak überrannt hat. Zur Zeit versuchen kurdische Milizen den IS mit einer Großoffensive aus dem Shingal zurückzudrängen.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), his wife Emine Erdogan (L-6), Family and Social Affairs Minister Aysen Gurcan (L-5) and President of W20 Turkey Gulden Turktan (R-6) pose with participants during the Women-20 (W20) Summit in Istanbul, Turkey on October 16, 2015. Yasin Bulbul/Turkish Presidency Press Office / Anadolu Agency
Kurdish emigres protest Paris murders at Turkish & French embassies : London 11.01.2013
On 11.01.2013 Kurdish emigres in London protested at the Turkish embassy and then marched to the nearby French embassy to protest about the shocking mass murder on 09.01.2013 in Paris of three female Kurdish political activists including PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz in what French police believe to be an execution a targeted assassination. The bodies of the three women - Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress’ (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doan, political activist Leyla Söylemez and Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) co-founder and Women's Movement organiser Sakine Cansız - were discovered behind several combination-locked doors in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris on Wednesday by friends who had been trying since the previous evening to contact the women and who had broken into the centre after discovering bloodstains on the outer doors.
Very shortly after French police were called to the scene (and with what many claim to be suspicious haste), Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party claimed that the murders were the result of “an internal feud” within the PKK. Celik did not offer any evidence to substantiate his assertion, yet also went on to suggest that the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks which have been taking place in the notorious high security prison on mralı Island between PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan - sentenced to death for treason against the Turkish state in 1999 but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when Turkey was forced to abolish the death sentence as part of it's application to join the EU - and the Turkish government.
The PKK have waged an often violent war against the Turkish government for the last 34 years as part of their campaign to establish an autonomous Kurdish enclave in South-East Turkey. Kurds make up almost 20% of the Turkish population, yet are forbidden by law to even speak their own language and have suffered greatly under Turkish suppression. Since the insurrection began in 1978 it is estimated that over 40,000 people on both sides have lost their lives in violent actions perpetrated in this conflict, and even though the PKK has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, NATO, Syria and others, the cause of Kurdish nationalism enjoys a huge level of support in the region. Turkish authorities have been concerned about PKK fighters entering Turkey from the autonomous Kurdish enclave in Northern Syria.
Kurdish populations are present in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and have experienced many decades of suppression by their respective states as the Kurds attempt to loosely re-establish their traditional Kurdistan, eradicated during the Ottoman reign, and it is against this long background of armed struggle that has seen large numbers of ethnic Kurds fleeing to Europe to find sanctuary. The Kurdish people I spoke to in Haringey last night said that they no longer feel safe anywhere in Europe after this execution which they lay firmly at the door of what they describe as the "dark, ultra-nationalistic shadow government" operating behind the scenes in Turkey who are violently opposed to any form of settlement or discussion with the Kurds.
Huddled around tables in the large hall adorned with photographs of fallen comrades and a large centrepiece display of their political figurehead, Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurds were subdued and in a measured, reflective mood. During the day it had been established by French police that the women had all been shot in the head through the throat using weapons with suppressors (silncers), and it is initially thought that there was possibly more than one gunman. There was no sign of forced entry to the building, so it seems that they were known to at least one of the women - two of whom were slaughtered as they were organising suitcases for their journeys back to Belgium and Germany.
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Mehrere Dutzend Kurden protestieren in Berlin am Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg gegen die fortgesetzten Angriffe des türkischen Staates mittels Polizei und Armee auf überwiegend kurdisch bewohnte Städte wie Cizre. Zudem fordern sie zu einem Dialog mit Abdullah Öcalan, dem Führer der PKK, auf , um einen Friedensprozess zwischen den Kurden und der türkischen Politik zu erreichen.
Auf Transparenten fordern sie Frieden für Rojava, sowie eine Beendigung der Isolierung von Abdullah Öcalan. Mit Blechen und Kochlöffeln erzeugter Lärm soll die Passanten auf die Lage der Kurden aufmerksam machen.
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ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 14: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) welcomes Senegalese President Macky Sall (L) prior to their bilateral meeting within the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 14, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. The 2015 G-20 Leaders Summit will be held in Antalya on November 15-16, 2015. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
Kurdish emigres protest Paris murders at Turkish & French embassies : London 11.01.2013
On 11.01.2013 Kurdish emigres in London protested at the Turkish embassy and then marched to the nearby French embassy to protest about the shocking mass murder on 09.01.2013 in Paris of three female Kurdish political activists including PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz in what French police believe to be an execution a targeted assassination. The bodies of the three women - Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress’ (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doan, political activist Leyla Söylemez and Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) co-founder and Women's Movement organiser Sakine Cansız - were discovered behind several combination-locked doors in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris on Wednesday by friends who had been trying since the previous evening to contact the women and who had broken into the centre after discovering bloodstains on the outer doors.
Very shortly after French police were called to the scene (and with what many claim to be suspicious haste), Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party claimed that the murders were the result of “an internal feud” within the PKK. Celik did not offer any evidence to substantiate his assertion, yet also went on to suggest that the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks which have been taking place in the notorious high security prison on mralı Island between PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan - sentenced to death for treason against the Turkish state in 1999 but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when Turkey was forced to abolish the death sentence as part of it's application to join the EU - and the Turkish government.
The PKK have waged an often violent war against the Turkish government for the last 34 years as part of their campaign to establish an autonomous Kurdish enclave in South-East Turkey. Kurds make up almost 20% of the Turkish population, yet are forbidden by law to even speak their own language and have suffered greatly under Turkish suppression. Since the insurrection began in 1978 it is estimated that over 40,000 people on both sides have lost their lives in violent actions perpetrated in this conflict, and even though the PKK has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, NATO, Syria and others, the cause of Kurdish nationalism enjoys a huge level of support in the region. Turkish authorities have been concerned about PKK fighters entering Turkey from the autonomous Kurdish enclave in Northern Syria.
Kurdish populations are present in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and have experienced many decades of suppression by their respective states as the Kurds attempt to loosely re-establish their traditional Kurdistan, eradicated during the Ottoman reign, and it is against this long background of armed struggle that has seen large numbers of ethnic Kurds fleeing to Europe to find sanctuary. The Kurdish people I spoke to in Haringey last night said that they no longer feel safe anywhere in Europe after this execution which they lay firmly at the door of what they describe as the "dark, ultra-nationalistic shadow government" operating behind the scenes in Turkey who are violently opposed to any form of settlement or discussion with the Kurds.
Huddled around tables in the large hall adorned with photographs of fallen comrades and a large centrepiece display of their political figurehead, Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurds were subdued and in a measured, reflective mood. During the day it had been established by French police that the women had all been shot in the head through the throat using weapons with suppressors (silncers), and it is initially thought that there was possibly more than one gunman. There was no sign of forced entry to the building, so it seems that they were known to at least one of the women - two of whom were slaughtered as they were organising suitcases for their journeys back to Belgium and Germany.
All photos © 2013 Pete Riches
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Zum dritten Mal protestiert der Berliner Landesverband der Piraten vor der Botschaft der Türkei in Berlin für Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit. Anlass sind die Diskussionen um den satirischen Beitrag des ARD-Magazins "extra3", welches zur Einbestellung des deutschen Botschafters in der Türkei geführt hat, sowie die Anzeige von Recep Tayyip Erdogan gegen den deutschen TV-Moderator Jan Böhmermann. Mit letzterem solidarisieren sich die Berliner Piraten ausdrücklich. Überschattet wird die Kundgebung von der erst Stunden zuvor bekannt gegebenen Entscheidung der Bundesregierung ein Verfahren wegen "Beleidigung eines Staatsoberhauptes" zuzulassen.
Unter den Rednern sind der Berliner Landesvorsitzende Bruno Kramm, die ehem. Mitarbeiterin von RT Deutsch und jetzige Piraten-Kandidatin Lea Frinds und ihr Lebensgefährte Marsili Cronberg. Außerdem das Mitglied des Abeordnetenhauses Simon Kowalewski.
Teilgenommen haben ebenfalls Kurden und Jesiden. Im Bild: Franz-Josef Schmitt.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) on the sidelines of the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 16, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) on the sidelines of the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 16, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. Kayhan Ozer / Anadolu Agency
Rund 150 Menschen, hauptsächlich Kurden, protestieren in Berlin auf dem Pariser Platz nahe des Brandenburger Tores gegen das harte und brutale Vorgehen des türkischen Staates in kurdisch dominierten Städten in der Türkei. Sie machten Recep Tayyip Erdogan und seine AKP für die Ermordung u.a. von Rechtsanwalt Tahir Elci verantwortlich. Zudem beschworen sie den Kampf der syrisch-kurdischen Volksverteidigungseinheiten YPG und YPJ gegen Daesh und klagten den türkischen Staat der Unterstützung des sogenannten ISlamischen Staates (IS) an.
Rund 350 Kurden und Anhänger linker Gruppen ziehen in Berlin vom Brandenburger Tor zum Bundeskanzleramt und dann weiter zur türkischen Botschaft.
Hintergrund ist die Tötung von 60 Menschen in der türkisch-kurdischen Stadt Cizre (kurdisch: Cizir) am Vortag. Seit Monaten beschießt die türkische Armee und Polizei vorwiegend kurdisch bewohnte Städte als Reaktion auf den Verlust der absoluten Mehrheit bei der letzten Parlamentwahl durch den Einzug der pro-kurdischen HDP und einiger Angriffe der PKK.
Die Situation in den betroffenen Gegenden kommt inzwischen einem Bürgerkrieg gleich.
In Reden wird die gleichzeitig stattfindene, wiederholte Reise der Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel in die Türkei scharf kritisiert. Die Aktivisten werfen Merkel vor, zu den anhaltenden Menschenrechtsverletzungen auf Geheiß von Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan und seiner AKP-Regierung zu schweigen.
Rund 50 Kurden demonstrieren auf dem Breitscheidplatz am Fuße der Gedächtniskirche gegen die anhaltende Aggression der türkischen Regierung gegen Kurden, die zu bürgerkriegsähnlichen Zuständen in Städten wie Cizre und Diyarbakır geführt haben.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 15: (Front row L-R) Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US President Barack Obama, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, (2nd Row L-R) Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, (3rd row L-R) World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo , International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Guy Ryder, Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim pose for a family photo during the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 15, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. Aykut Unlupinar / Anadolu Agency
Rund 50 Kurden demonstrieren auf dem Breitscheidplatz am Fuße der Gedächtniskirche gegen die anhaltende Aggression der türkischen Regierung gegen Kurden, die zu bürgerkriegsähnlichen Zuständen in Städten wie Cizre und Diyarbakır geführt haben.
ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 14: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and South African President Jacob Zuma (R) greet each other before a bilateral meeting ahead of the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 14, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. The 2015 G-20 Leaders Summit will be held in Antalya on November 15-16, 2015. Aykut Ünlüpınar / Anadolu Agency