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Police forces work to stop clashes in Hamburg in Northern Germany, Tuesday morning October 8th. Photo: AP
BERLIN — Violent protests over ISIS erupted in Germany and 9 people have died in Turkey demonstrations over the terrorist group’s rise in the Middle East.
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Protesters and policeman come face to face as street clashes broke out between hundreds of Kurds and militant Muslim supporters in Hamburg.Photo: Getty Images
Police in the northern German city of Hamburg say 14 people were injured overnight in clashes between Kurdish protesters and members of a hard-line Islamic movement.
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Riot police walk through the mist of a water cannon during clashes in Hamburg.Photo: AP
Police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky said Wednesday that the clashes happened after hundreds of Kurds held a protest against the Islamic State group. Similar protests took place throughout Europe on Tuesday by Kurds seeking to draw attention to Islamic State’s onslaught against the Kurdish town of Kobani in northern Syria.
The violence erupted after a standoff between the protesters and members of a nearby mosque associated with the Salafist movement. Salafism is a strict interpretation of Islam, whose adherents are closely monitored by German security services.
Sadowsky says police used water cannons to break up the protest, and arrested 22 people.
Meanwhile, at least nine people were killed and dozens wounded in demonstrations across Turkey, local media reported, as Kurds demanded the government do more to protect the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from Islamic State militants.
Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters who burnt cars and tires as they took to the streets mainly in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish eastern and southeastern provinces. Clashes also erupted in the biggest city Istanbul and in the capital Ankara.
Five people were killed in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in the southeast, which saw clashes between protesters and police.
A 25-year-old man died in Varto, a town in the eastern province of Mus, and at least half a dozen people were wounded there in clashes between police and protesters, local media reported.
Two people died in southeastern Siirt province, the governor was quoted as saying by CNN Turk Television, and another died in neighboring Batman. Curfews were imposed in five predominantly Kurdish southeastern provinces after the protests, in which shops and banks were damaged.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala called for an end to the protests. “Violence is not the solution. Violence triggers reprisals. This irrational attitude should come to an end immediately,” he told reporters.
Islamic State fighters have advanced into the southwest of Kobani, increasing pressure on Turkey to intervene in the conflict. The three-week-long assault on Kobani has cost 400 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
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