About 80 People demonstrated on Saturday, the 20. June, in downtown Kassel against the renewed attacks by the Turkish military in southern Kurdistan.
Numerous places were bombed by Turkish warplanes last week, including supposed guerrilla positions in the Qandil Mountains, but also the Maxmur refugee camp and the Yazidi Shengal region.
Mainly Kurdish families live in the Maxmur refugee camp, who had to flee the destruction of Kurdish villages by the Turkish military in the 1990s and eventually settled in Iraq. In recent years, Maxmur has been bombed several times by the Turkish Air Force, because many of the residents sympathize with the Kurdish freedom movement.
In the Yazidi Shengal region, too, many people sympathize with the goals of the Kurdish freedom movement and fight alongside them for the Yazidi minority's right to self-determination as well as for women's liberation and democracy. After all, it was mainly the armed units of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who freed thousands of civilians from the Islamic State's encirclement in the Shengal region and saved them from certain death.
As if the painful experience of near-genocide at the hands of the barbarians of the Islamic State wasn't enough, The Turkish government is now retroactively turning itself into the “air force of IS.”, says the call for the protests. It not only condemns the “new occupation offensive in Southern Kurdistan” by “the fascist Turkish state”., but also the silence of the world public.
Because all of the bombed locations are in Iraq, the assumption is obvious, that the attacks are tolerated by both the Iraqi central government and the government of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. Although people took to the streets in numerous cities in Kurdistan and Europe, to protest against the new military offensive, Significant reactions in international politics have so far been delayed.
