Tens of thousands of Kurds protest over ISIS inaction in Europe (VIDEO) — RT News

Tens of thousands of Kurds protest over ISIS inaction in Europe (VIDEO) — RT News



Tens of thousands of Kurds protest over ISIS inaction in Europe (VIDEO)

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dusseldorf, Paris and London on Saturday to call for greater action to protect the Syrian border town of Kobani against the advancing Islamic State militants.

About 20,000 protesters from several German cities and abroad marched peacefully to the local parliament building in Dusseldorf. Waving flags of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and holding banners of imprisoned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan, they drew attention of the international community to the Islamic State’s violence towards the Kurds.

About 20,000 protesters from several German cities and abroad marched peacefully to the local parliament building in Dusseldorf. Waving flags of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and holding banners of imprisoned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan, they drew attention of the international community to the Islamic State’s violence towards the Kurds.

In London, where a similar protest has been held right outside the British parliament, several Kurdish protesters were detained. At least three of them were reportedly arrested in a “rough” manner. A huge crowd of Kurds gathered there to deliver their main message - “ISIS = terrorist” - RT’s Harry Fear reports.

In the French capital several thousand Kurds gathered with their children in a peaceful rally to show their support to the residents of besieged Kobani, AFP reports. Some demonstrators also expressed their anger with the Turkish government, carrying posters that read "No to a buffer zone", proposed by Turkey as a way to avoid interference with the conflict, and caricatures of the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

 On Saturday, defenders of Kobani urged the US and its allies to intensify air strikes on Islamic State fighters to help protect the town, which is facing a massacre, Reuters reports.

More than 40 percent of Kobani which is located on the Syrian-Turkish border has fallen under the control of Islamic State fighters. The European Kurdish diaspora believes the militants are opposed only by the Kurdish peshmerga militias and the international community is failing to take protective action on the ground.

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