British police raid the Kurdish Community Centre and patriots' houses in London

In London, the Kurdish Community Centre was raided and Kurdish patriots were detained by the police on Wednesday.

In the morning, British police raided the London Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) and the homes of many Kurdish patriots and politicians.

According to reports, the doors of the houses were broken by the police with sledgehammers in the operations carried out by hundreds of police officers who searched the houses in detail.

While the searches at the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey continued, the entrance and exits of the street where KCC is located were closed.


Police units also carried out searches in the houses of Kurdish patriots.

The co-chair of Kurdish People's Assembly (KHM) Türkan Budak, Assembly employee Ercan Akbal, Kurdish writer, politician Ali Poyraz and Kurdish People's Assembly Foreign Affairs Representative Agit Karataş have been detained so far.

During the raid in the house of KHM co-chair Türkan Budak, her brother Hayri Budak was injured while trying to prevent the police from breaking the door by force. 

Ali Poyraz was detained with handcuffs behind his back, while the people in the house were forced to the ground and subjected to the harsh attitude of the police.

Kurdish People's Assembly Co-Chair Sait Suruç called on all revolutionary patriotic and democratic groups to gather in front of the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey.