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On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful. [16]
7 February – A plane is forced to land in Turkey following a bomb threat from a passenger [4] on board a flight from Kharkiv in Ukraine.; 9 February – Tear gas and water cannons used by the Erdoğan government against street protests against his government's internet restrictions.
Some who participated in the march had been directly affected by the purges, including a former political science professor who was fired by government decree in April 2017. [7] He was one of the 1,100 academics who were investigated for signing a petition calling for an end to violence in Turkey's southeastern conflict with the Kurdish people ...
After the hostile reactions of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [4] and Turkish society, Turkish Cypriots organized a second and third rally on 2 March and 7 April 2011. The average turnout was 50,000–80,000, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] making these some of the largest demonstrations by Turkish Cypriots under the occupation. [ 7 ]
December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq; 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2014 Kobanî protests; 2019 Papua protests (Indonesia) March and Rally for Scottish Independence (2012–2013) Hirak Rif Movement (Morocco) Telangana movement (India) Gdeim Izik protest camp (Morocco) 2024 New Caledonia unrest (France)
After the Uludere airstrike killed 34 [6] to 50 [60] Kurdish civilians, major protests followed in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish cities, [61] most notably Diyarbakir where protests turned violent and police used batons and tear gas against protesters and protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police. [62]
A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd's killing said Monday he was ...
This is about the protests in autumn 2014 that took place in many Kurdish cities in Turkey against the dramatic situation in the Syrian city of Kobanî. The city, which is located directly on the border with Turkey and is predominantly inhabited by Kurds, was besieged by the Islamic State (IS) from September 2014.