Kurdish people took to the streets in Darmstadt and Mannheim to protest the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan. Police in Mannheim tried to prevent the demonstration.
Protests against the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and to demand his freedom continue throughout Europe. Kurdish people took to the fields in Darmstadt and Mannheim. Here the police attempted to prevent the action to be held because of the presence of flags of Kurdish political organisations which are deemed illegal by German authorities.
Darmstadt
Kurds in Darmstadt meet every week demanding freedom for Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan. This week they said: "We do not accept the isolation imposed on Öcalan. He has been held hostage for 22 years by the occupying and denial Turkish state".
Kurds got together at Luisenplatz and condemned the pressures against the HDP with a statement read in German.
Mannheim
Kurds also protested the isolation of Öcalan and demanded his freedom in Mannheim. However, the German police tried to prevent the action
People reacted to the attempt made by police to prevent the action and said that Germany is selling arms to the Turkish government.
