Members of the Labour, Peace and Democracy Forces in Istanbul gathered in Şişhane to protest the attacks of the Turkish state-backed HTS and FSA jihadist fascist gangs against Aleppo and Rojava.

The demonstrators, among them deputies for the DEM Party, were blockaded by the police and subjected to a brutal crackdown after protesting the arbitrary intervention, chanting ‘Bijî berxwedana Rojava’ (Long Live the Rojava Resistance). 50 people were taken into custody by use of violence.

Despite the crackdown and detentions, the DEM Party Istanbul Provincial Organisation staged a march in protest at the attacks on Aleppo and Rojava by the jihadist fascist gangs of Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra remnants HTS and the FSA, guided by the Turkish government.