Activists close the Turkish Embassy in solidarity with Afrin

In Rome activists answered the call made by Rete Kurdistan to act in solidarity with Afrin on Friday by “closing” the Turkish embassy with their bodies.

The doors of the embassy were blocked by the activists who read a communicate saying: “This action symbolizes not only a protest against the hundreds of arrests and abuses which for years we denounce, suffered by those who oppose the policies of the AKP and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This is one of the actions aimed at supporting the solidarity that the entire European civil society and every Kurdish community in the continent, are activating for the Afrin people and Northern Syria, who have been fighting for years against Daesh”. Kurds in the Northern Syria Federation have been hit hard by Erdogan and his Daesh allied who entered the city of Afrin, killing innocents and looting the houses of hundreds of civilians.”

"We have made this gesture - the activists continue - to give voice to a people who for years have been fighting for peace, for the coexistence of different ethnic groups and cultures, for the liberation of women, for social ecology, in one of the most tormented places rich in oil and natural resource that Turkey and many more countries want to have control on”.

The activists were charged by police but insisted on their action and denounce:  "We must break the silence that would like to isolate a peaceful and revolutionary experience like that of Rojava, under attack ... We want to make our solidarity felt with those who have been fighting against ISIS fundamentalist terrorism for years.”