By IRNA
Berlin : Germany-based Kurds are to demonstrate in Berlin on Saturday against Turkey’s ongoing military operations in northern Iraq, the press reported Wednesday.
Organizers expect around 2,000 people, including German radical leftists and anarchist groups.
Berlin has witnessed a series of violent street clashes in recent weeks between Turkish nationalists and supporters of the banned PKK Kurdish terrorist group in recent weeks.
The PKK and its sub-organizations have been outlawed in Germany since November 1993 for “endangering national security.”
In other related news, a former PKK official was sentenced to a 33 month jail term by a Berlin court on charges of being a member of a terrorist group.
The 58 year-old Turkish defendant claimed to be a regional PKK director in the southern Germany.