FRANKFURT, Germany – The war between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels spilled into the streets of Germany this week, with fierce clashes between thousands of ethnic Kurds and Turks that police struggled to keep apart.
Clashes took place in Frankfurt, Stuttgart and the German capital, Berlin.
Ethnic Turks and Kurds butted heads in Frankfurt on Thursday, where police reportedly used pepper spray as they struggled to control the violence.
“What do they expect, should Kurds just watch their brothers and sisters massacred by the Turkish government?” asked Onur Kizilbas, an ethnic Kurd born in the Turkey’s Kurdish Dersim province who was at the Frankfurt rally.
Tensions between ethnic Kurds and Turks in Germany – the country in Europe with the largest number of immigrants from both communities – have been on the rise since Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) reignited their conflict in late July, ending a two-year ceasefire.
Since then, Turkey has been carrying out near-daily air raids and attacks against the PKK in its own Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq, where the rebels operate some military camps.
The tensions reached boiling point after the Turkish government imposed a curfew last Friday in the Cizre district of the country’s southeastern Kurdish Sirnak province.
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/110920151
Incredible! Germany is importing an ethnic civil war into their midst! What fools.