Demonstration of Kurds all around the world against the war

new demonstration against the Turkish Armed Forces’ (TSK) aerial bombardment of the Federal Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been staged in Mersin.

Meanwhile in Istanbul the Saturday Mothers, holding their 335th sit in action in Galatasaray Square continued their quest for justice for family members who were victims of unsolved murders or have disappeared while in police custody. Like every week, the mothers carried banners with pictures of the missing.

Evin Doğan, niece of Seyhan Doğan who disappeared while in police custody in 1995 when he was 13, said that her grandparents was searching justice for her uncle until they died last year. From now on, he is going to take over this responsibility and ask “where is my uncle.”

Protests against military raids are taking place in Europe as well. TwitterKurds has launched a demonstration in London against the Turkish air raids into the Kurdish Federal Region. It is scheduled to begin today outside the Turkish Embassy in Belgrave Square at 3pm (an earlier meeting point to join the demonstration is at 2pm at Manor House Tube Station).

In their press release, the demonstration organizers underlined that "the Turkish state’s repression of the Kurdish people has taken an ominous turn as Turkish warplanes continue to bomb PKK controlled areas in the Kandil Mountains and surrounding areas, killing scores of Kurdish civilians and emptying numerous Kurdish villages."

From the beginning of the year, the Turkish authorities have been intensifying attacks against the Kurdish people in all spheres of Kurdish political life.

Detentions have almost doubled from the previous year and the historical election victory of the Kurds was marred by grenade attacks on the night of election celebrations and compounded by the Turkish state's continued imprisonment of 6 Kurdish political prisoners who were elected to parliament from jail.

The 36 elected pro-Kurdish MPs were effectively locked out of parliament by the state whose real intentions have become blindingly clear.

The statement also says, "The Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan has used a mixture of clever psychological warfare and criminalization of the Kurds with a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political activists, surgically pinpointing and arresting the most active and effective leadership of the Kurdish Movement, who now are incarcerated in Turkish jails.”

Despite nightly bombardments and claims of over a hundred PKK casualties, the PKK self-defense forces (HPG) report that the only casualties have been civilian casualties, including families and children. They also point to the fact that most of their forces are operational inside Turkey.

KCK (Confederation of Kurdistan Communities) executive member, Murat Karayilan added that HPG to date have only percent of their forces engaged in operations and have warned Turkey that this could change if Turkey continues with its military operations.

source: http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2946