Demonstrations in Washington and a number of European capitals against the Turkish aggression on Syrian territories

CAPITALS,(ST) – Thousands of people demonstrated in the US capital Washington and a number of European capitals and cities to condemn the Turkish aggression on Syrian territories.

Reuters reported that dozens of people gathered in front of the White House and chanted slogans condemning the US collusion with the Turkish aggression and demanding the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop its aggression on northeastern Syria.
In France, more than 20,000 people, including French political figures, demonstrated in several cities to condemn the Turkish aggression, where more than 4,000 people gathered in the Republic Square in the capital Paris and then went to the square Châtelet in the middle of the city.

The demonstrators waved banners calling US President Donald Trump a killer and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the real leader of ISIS, denouncing European silence over the aggression and demanding tangible sanctions against the Turkish regime.

In Marseille, southeastern France, some 6,000 protesters demanded that European countries speak with one voice to reject the aggression and stop it, while around 1,000 people demonstrated in Strasbourg, northeastern France, chanting “Erdogan is a murderer”.
Thousands of people also held demonstrations in a number of European cities, including Nicosia, Athens, Warsaw, Brussels, Budapest and Vienna. Thousands of people in various German cities also took part in the demonstrations.
More than 10,000 protesters gathered in Cologne and about 4,000 in Frankfurt to protest against Turkish aggression, according to the German news agency DPA.
The Turkish regime forces are launching an aggression on Syrian territories in the Hasakah and Raqqa countryside in parallel with the targeting of several rural villages and towns in the two governorates, focusing on infrastructure and vital facilities such as water and electricity stations, dams, oil installations and residential neighborhoods, this resulted in the death of a number of civilians and extensive damage to infrastructure.

Raghda Sawas