The Kurds of Europe mobilise to their 'brothers' of Syria
Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party staged a sit-in in the European Parliament in Brussels, October 7.
The jihadist Noose Tightens on the Kurdish town of Kobane (Ayn Al-Arab in Arabic), in Syria, where the fighters of the Islamic State (ARS) are gaining ground. Concerned about the threat that weighs on their brothers, hundreds of Kurds from the diaspora have expressed Tuesday 7 October across Europe.
Several dozen of them have managed to get in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Bearing Kurdish flags with an image of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (or PKK - party workers of Kurdistan, based in Turkey), staged a sit-in in the lobby of the building, joined by several MEPs expressed their support.
More than a thousand people marched Tuesday in Marseille, the fourth event in the city in less than ten days. A rally was also held in Paris, where nearly 200 people demonstrated outside the Elysee against "inaction of the international community" about the situation to Kobane. Responding to the call of the Federation of Kurdish associations of France, the demonstrators, with them also flags of the PKK, called for weapons for the Kurdish fighters engaged against the EIS, before leaving in quiet, late afternoon. Mobilization was also held in Nice in the day.
APPLICATION FOR AID "HUMANITARIAN AND MILITARY."
The day before, dozens of Kurds were found at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, condemning "the departures of European candidates for Jihad from french airports. Yekbun Eksen, Member of the Federation of Kurdish associations of France, called for the implementation "of humanitarian and military aid to the resistance fighters of the city of Kobane".
The French authorities fear their side of the departures of Kurds to the Syria. Police questioned including the worrying disappearance, late September, a Kurdish teenager in the Paris suburbs who reportedly planned to fight the jihadist group Islamic State.
Monday, about 60 protesters had invested the Dutch Parliament in the Hague for a ' peaceful ' against the 'threat of genocide' in Kobane, according to the organizers. Facing the risk of overflow, riot police and helicopters had flew over the neighborhood in the evening.
A death at a pro-Kurdish demonstration in Turkey
A man was killed Tuesday in Mus in southeastern Turkey during a demonstration by Kurds who denounced the Government of Ankara's refusal to intervene militarily to prevent the fall of Kobane, reported the Turkish media. According the daily Hurriyet, the young man of 25 years was reached by a shot of unknown origin. The NTV news channel provides, in turn, was hit in head by a tear gas canister fired by police.
Violent incidents erupted Tuesday in many cities of Turkey. Police intervened with tear gas and guns in water to disperse the protesters in several districts of Istanbul, in the capital, Ankara, Diyarbakir, the Kurdish "capital" of the southeast of the Turkey, or in the seaside resort of Antalya (South).
Despite the green light formal of the Parliament in a military operation in Syria and Iraq against the EIS, Turkish Islamic-conservative power so far refused to intervene, angering Kurdish populations.