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Five hurt as Kurds and Turks clash in German protest
2019-10-16
More like a similar clash in Belgium last Saturday.
[AlAhram] Five people were maimed in festivities between the Kurdish and Ottoman Turkish communities in the western German city of Herne, police said, as Kurds demonstrated against Ankara's offensive in northeastern Syria.

Around 350 people were marching through the city centre late on Monday when they were "provoked with hand signals" by people drinking at a nearby kiosk, police said in a statement.

"Some of them stormed into the kiosk, attacked two people inside and injured them" as well as breaking a window, they added.

The demonstration continued and someone threw a bottle at the marchers from a Ottoman Turkish-owned cafe as they passed.

"The reaction was very emotional and angry" as again several participants rushed into the cafe, breaking windows and furniture and injuring at least one person inside, as well as one of the coppers who intervened to stop the fighting.

Nevertheless, "the police were able to calm the situation" and the demonstration ended as planned when the marchers reached their destination in the centre.

Among the five people hurt was the organiser of the march, who was attacked when he tried to stop the violence.

Of the roughly three million people with Ottoman Turkish nationality or roots living in Germany, around one million are Kurds.

Politicians regularly warn of tensions between the two communities, which have been stoked by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
's offensive into Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria.

Meanwhile in Berlin, local police said a man wearing a jacket with a Ottoman Turkish flag was beaten by around 15 people, leaving him with a facial injury.

"According to the 30-year-old Ottoman Turkish citizen, the men had assaulted him because of the jacket he was wearing which had a Ottoman Turkish national flag on it," said Berlin police in a statement of the incident on Monday evening.

The assailants spoke Arabic and German, added police.
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