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Turkish Embassy personnel attack protestors in Pretoria

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Security personnel from the Turkish Embassy in Pretoria pounced on members of the Turkey Solidarity Network (TSN) in South Africa, who were protesting the Turkish government’s human rights abuses ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the mission, IOL news reported on Thursday.

“We were very peaceful, yet firmly picketing about Erdoğan’s dictatorial rule. Suddenly, security personnel emerged from the embassy and attacked us. I was kicked in the face, and I’m bleeding right now as you can see,” said Majesty Mnyandu, interim chairperson of TSN.

Pictures taken during the scuffle also showed that protesters were holding stones in their hands.

The South African police had done nothing to protect the demonstrators against Turkish security personnel’s attack, Mnyandu said. However, members of the TSN were determined to remain in place until Erdoğan saw their placards, he said.

“One would expect the police to protect citizens when they are under form of attack. We are being attacked here and the police are standing idle. What kind of policing is that? They should have protected us,” said Mnyandu.

Several TSN members were bleeding, while others were crying in pain.

In a statement released ahead of the protest on Thursday, the TSN said: “Turkey’s two year-long state of emergency and new anti-terror laws set a backdrop for violations of human rights … with academics, journalists, political activists and human rights defenders among those targeted.”

The civic group said more than 250 000 workers, including judges, teachers and government workers have lost their jobs and others have been detained, suspended or placed under investigation by Erdogan’s regime.

“Families are being separated where mothers and young children are jailed or left to fend for themselves,” said the TSN statement.

Officials from the Turkish Embassy were not readily available to comment.

President Erdoğan is visiting Johannesburg to attend the tenth summit of the BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Angry Kurdish demonstrators tried to storm Turkish embassy in London

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london-kurd-protestLONDON,— At least one British police officer was wounded Friday when angry Kurdish demonstrators tried to storm the Turkish embassy in London in protest against the detention of leading Kurdish politicians in Turkey.

The protest that began relatively peacefully degenerated into violence as dozens of protesters tried to break through police barriers and enter the embassy, Rudaw reported.

Police sources said the injuries of the officer were relatively light and not life threatening.

Hundreds of Kurdish activists and demonstrators gathered in front of the UK prime minister’s office in Downing Street Friday before moving towards the Turkish embassy in London.

Larger demonstrations are expected in London and other European capitals on Saturday as lawmakers of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) remain in Turkish police custody, Kurdish activists told Rudaw.

Prominent HDP lawmakers including party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdaq were detained by the Turkish police Thursday night.

Turkish authorities have said the lawmakers were detained after they failed to respond to a court summons investigating terror charges.

The Turkish government accuses the HDP of being the political arm of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has fought an armed insurgency against the state for over three decades. The HDP rejects the accusation.

The Turkish parliament removed the legal immunity for a select group of lawmakers, including many from HDP, earlier this year, which has made it possible for the court to issue the warrants for their arrest.

The court also issued arrest warrants for three other HDP lawmakers on Friday after another four MPs were released on bail during the day. Police said 8 lawmakers, including the co-chairs, were now in custody.

In New York, demonstrations were held on Friday with hundreds of Kurdish protesters gathering in front of the UN headquarters.

The protesters demanded the UN condemn the arrests, but the world body has so far only “raised concern” for the crackdown on Kurdish politicians.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric condemned a deadly bombing that hit the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, hours after the arrests. But he stopped short of condemning the lawmakers’ arrests, saying that the UN was concerned.

The United States used similar language. In the daily State Department press briefing on Friday, spokesperson John Kirby said “the United States condemns the indefensible bombing in Diyarbakir.”

Regarding the arrests of the HDP lawmakers, Kirby said the US is “deeply concerned.”

He said that US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Ümit Yalçın and made it clear “that when democracies pursue legal action against an elected representative, they must do so in a manner that reinforces the public’s confidence in rule of law.”

EU, France, Germany and several parties in the European Union legislature have strongly condemned the detention of Kurdish politicians by Turkish authorities over “terrorism-related” investigations.

The European Union is “extremely worried” by Turkey’s arrest of Kurdish opposition lawmakers, the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday, “Extremely worried for arrest of (Selahattin Demirtas) and other (HDP) MPs,” she said. “In contact with authorities.”

The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 78-million population. A large Kurdish community in Turkey and worldwide openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

Baghdad: Sadr ask for protest in front Turkish Embassy in Support of the Army and denouncing “the terrorists and the Turkish arsenal”

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al-sadr-turkish-embasyAlsumaria News / Baghdad
He called the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, to postpone the demonstrations in front of court time and planned on Tuesday, face a “crawling” toward the Turkish Embassy to support the army and the liberation of Mosul, “the terrorists and the Turkish arsenal”

Sadr said in a televised speech followed up, Alsumaria News, “the aspects of my words to my dear ones in revolt for reform, and tell them that it has become necessary for us to and from the door of the fulfillment of our military and appreciation for Oagaftna courage in Mosul humpback beloved that we postpone the Tazahratna peaceful Mhamtna before the time the court to go thousands Zahvin about embassy Turkish “.

He said al-Sadr, “to hear your voice and peaceful means and literary without infringe upon or are aware of the state unified moral and chants of you will support this army and Mjahidikm to liberate Mosul from terrorists and Turkish arsenal that sits on the land of the province without respect for our land and our sovereignty.”

He said al-Sadr, “deeply regret with an understanding of the power of the same date to hear the voice of the embassy to be a warning to anyone who thinks he is able to occupy Iraq and his land.”

He called Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday (October 11, 2016) on Iraqis to demonstrate in front of time the court (Federal Supreme Court headquarters in Baghdad) on Tuesday for “a peaceful epic Underline” to reject the return of “corrupt” to their office, while stressing should not be reduced to the demonstration category or a particular stream.

Paris: Kurd Demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy violently dispersed by French police

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arton121892-480x360The demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy in Paris to denounce the massacre of the Kurds has been violently dispersed by the French police, who used tear gas and batons.

The demonstrators moved towards the Kurdistan Democratic Centre (16 rue d’Enghien, Paris 10) where the mobilization will continue throughout the day.

Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDKF)
16, rue d’Enghien – 75010 Paris
Tel: 09.52.51.09.34

Armenian man opens fire at Turkish embassy in Moscow

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PAn Armenian national opened fire with a rifle at the Turkish embassy in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Aug 18 morning, Cihan news agency reported.

181680The man, identified as Arthur Mirzoyan, 43, is a company manager in Moscow.

No causalities or injuries have been reported in the attack.

The man shot at the signboard on the embassy building after parking his car in the street in the morning hours.

Mirzoyan refused to explain his motive for the attack, but police put emphasis on the recent tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a possible motive.

 

Cihan. Armenian man attacks Turkish Embassy in Moscow

Three injured in rocket attack on Turkish Embassy in Somalia

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Ankara – Anadolu Agency

Three Turkish construction workers were injured during a rocket attack on the Turkish Embassy in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on April 10.

Rockets were fired at the embassy, which is currently under construction. The Turkish ambassador to Somalia, Kani Torun said no organization has been linked with the attack.

Another building in front of the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu was attacked in July last year. The attack killed one Turkish police officer and injured three people.

The injured Turkish nationals, Muhammed Yakup Saraç, 25, Recep Keskin, 51, and Necdet Adsız, 52, were brought to the Turkish capital of Ankara via air ambulance April 11 and transferred to Atatürk Training and Research Hospital.

The father of Saraç, who made a statement to the press in front of the hospital, thanked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for transferring his son from Somali.