Berlin Kurds protest Turkish government’s repression of Kurdish population
Kurds in Germany’s capital on Saturday protested against what they said was the Turkish government’s repression of the Kurdish population of Turkey.
Demonstrators in Berlin called for an end to violence in southeastern Turkey, a mainly Kurdish populated region.
The Turkish military has been engaged over the past months in a large-scale campaign against Kurdish militants in the region. It has also been conducting offensives against the positions of the militants in northern Syria and northern Iraq.
Anadolu news agency said in a report earlier in March that more than 1,200 Kurdish militants had been killed in such offensives in southeastern Turkey.
The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. More than 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
After the bombing, the Kurdish militants, who accuse the government in Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party has strongly slammed Ankara’s campaign in the Kurdish-populated areas.
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