Kurds march in Berlin to free PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

October 27, 2018

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

August 11, 2018

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.

Hundreds Kurds march in Berlin at World Afrin Day

March 24, 2018

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.

Kurds marched from Berlin Kreuzberg to the center to save Afrin

March 11, 2018

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.

Kurds march spontaneously in Berlin to save Afrin

March 10, 2018

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.