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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]
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 ...
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.
21 March - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan makes historic calls for peace talks with Turkey after nearly 30 years of violent conflict. [ 7 ] 22 March - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologises to Prime Minister Erdogan for the killing of nine activists in a raid on Gaza and the US reports they are normalising relations.
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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]
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
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of the Travis County Jail to support those arrested during protests at the University of Texas earlier in the day, April 24, 2024 in Austin, Texas.