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Dozens of Kurds held a rally at Berlin's Alexanderplatz to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from Turkish prison at İmralı. Öcalan is detained since 1999 when he was sent to a life long prison term.
The activists critizied the ban of the PKK in Germany and pointed out the great effort of the PKK and its northern-Syrian allies YPG and YPJ while fight radical muslim militias as Daesh and the Al-Nusra-Front.
About 500 attended a march by Kurds and left wing groups at the World Afrin Day. The participants solidarizied with the fight of Syrian YPG and YPJ against Turkish forces and its allies. Days after Turkey could conquer the strategic important city of Afrin (Efrin) in northern Syria the activists feared a mass murder on the Kurdish citizens of the region.
Some dozens of Kurds held a rally in front of the embassy of Russia in Berlin to protest against the attacks on northern-Syrian Afrin (Efrin) by Turkish forces and allied militias. They critizied Russia for the opening of the Syrian airspace for the Turkish airforce which heavily bombed the Kurdish YPG/YPJ to support the attacks of ground troops.
About 1,000 Kurds marched in Berlin Kreuzberg to protest against the attacks on northern-Syrian Afrin (Efrin) by the Turkish Forces and its allied militias. During the emotional march clashes broke out when a Turkish nationalist waved a flag of Turkey out of a window at the route of the march. Stones and bottles were thrown at the nationalist. Police interfered and arrested several Kurdish activists. After a short sit-in the march went on and arrived then peaceful the end of the route.
Hundreds Kurds gathered a spontaneous march from Berlin Neukölln to Kreuzberg as Turkish forces and allied militias stand just a few hundreds meters from the center of the northern Syrian-Kurdish Afrin (Efrin). While the march was highly emotional it remains peaceful.
