Around 1000 people, mostly Kurds, but also members of left-wing groups, take part in a demonstration in Berlin against the invasion of Turkey in the north-eastern Syrian region of Rojava.

The self-governing region is defended by the Kurdish self-defence units YPG and YPJ. Hundreds of people are said to have lost their lives in the fighting in the last few days. Over 100,000 people are on the run.

Both Turkey and the former allies of the YPG/YPJ are criticized in speeches.

Turkey sees the YPG/YPJ as an offshoot of the Kurdish Workers' Party PKK and therefore sees them as terrorists. Meanwhile the Kurdish units have been the closest ally of the West in recent years, especially of the USA in the fight against Daesh (IS). By the decision of US President Donald Trump to withdraw his own troops from the Kurdish territories, he opened up the possibility of Turkey's invasion.