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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]
Erdoğan just before the clash. Video from Voice of America. Video of the clashes by Voice of America. Video of the clashes by Voice of America.. On May 16, 2017, protesters critical of the policies of the Turkish Government [11] [12] gathered in front of the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in Washington on the same day Trump held a meeting with Erdoğan.
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]
In January 2017, Der Spiegel magazine and ARD broadcaster reported that about 40 mostly high-ranking Turkish soldiers who worked at NATO facilities in Germany requested asylum in Germany. [270] At the end of February 2017, Germany said it had received 136 asylum requests from Turks holding diplomatic passports since the July coup attempt.
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 ...
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Arrests on California campus begin after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist. JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY. April 24, 2024 at 7:18 PM. ... USA TODAY Sports.
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