In contrast to the accusation the Erdoğan regime promotes against the Berlin government claiming: "You are supporting the PKK", it has been revealed that Germany itself resorts to all means it has in its clampdown on the Kurdish struggle.
It has been reported that the German Interior Ministry has filed 4500 lawsuits against Kurds within 13 years, and brought action against 240 persons for "membership to a foreign terrorist organization".
While Germany continues its obstruction of pro-PKK demonstrations in the country, Turkish president Tayyip Erdoğan being in the first place, AKP officials and the AKP government point their finger at Germany and exclaim: "You are supporting the PKK."
Despite all those claims it came out that Germany's police and prosecutors are compared to Turkey in not taking a back seat whatsoever when it comes to aggressions against the Kurdish struggle. German state television MDR has recently aired a programme with the title "Is Germany giving a loose fight against the PKK?".
THE PKK BAN AGGRAVATED THIS MARCH
The programme called attention to the aggravation of Germany's PKK ban this March and recalled that Germany has recently introduced a ban on several Kurdish flags and symbols, among them posters depicting Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Speaking at the programme, Spokesperson of Germany's Interior Ministry Johannes Dimroth stated that investigations have been launched against 4500 persons in connection with the PKK ban since 2004. Dimroth said most of the cases are based on "non-compliance with the Demonstration Law", pointing out that 90 persons have been given heavy imprisonment sentences since 1992 on alleged charges of “being administrators of the PKK”.
According to the Spokesperson's accounts, a total of 180 investigations have been conducted against 240 Kurdish politicians and activists in the last few years based on the "membership to foreign terrorist organisation” act that was put into force not long ago. In addition, Federal Prosecutor is currently running 24 investigations in this scope.
Also violence of the German police against the Kurdish demonstrators has seen a rise in the last years. The latest example occurred during a massive peaceful demonstration of the Kurdish community and their friends in German capital Berlin, where the German police attacked the demonstrators on the pretext of waving the flags of the YPG and YPJ, and critically injured three protesters.
