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Kurds march in Berlin to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

Kurds march in Berlin to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

Kurds demanded with a demonstration in Berlin the release of the leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) imprisoned on the Turkish island İmralı .

Speech choirs were directed against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The police showed a clear presence at the demonstration.

After passers-by provoked the demonstration by showing the so-called "wolf salute" of the right-wing radical Turkish "grey wolves", violent clashes broke out which were quickly ended by the police. At least six people were arrested and the demonstration continued.

Kurds rally to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison

Kurds rally to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison

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.