Thousands of Kurds to the streets in Frankfurt

frankfurt - About 9,000 Kurds are Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany took to the streets to demonstrate against the Turkish President Erdogan and the referendum held in April on amending the Constitution.

Under the slogan 'No to dictatorship, yes to democracy and freedom' they went in a long procession through the city.

The organizers had counted on 20 000 participants. The demonstrators chanted slogans like 'Erdogan terrorist' and freedom for Öcalan '.

Protesters also waved flags with the image of the Kurdish leader Ocalan of the banned PKK. German police ordered several times participants to dispose of flags and made video recordings of people who beat the ban in the wind.