kasian: 1st November: International day for Kobani in Diyarbakır*

There were thousands of people in the demonstration.

Diyarbakır, the Kurdish city in which at least 13 people had been killed in the protests for Kobani on 6-7 October, had another demonstration, but peacefully this time, on the International Day for Kobani, today.

As it is known, hundreds of well-known writers, academics and performers had made a call for 1st November to be declared a day for global solidarity with Kobani. This calling had sounded all over the world and preparations for that day had been made. Today, in many different cities all around the world demonstrations took place to act in solidarity with the resistance of Kobani. The aims of those demonstrations were also to get more global attention to the happening in Kobani and more aid for the people and fighters fighting against jihadists IS(IS) militants.

People who didn't join the marching
also greeted the demonstators.

There were also demonstrations in which thousands were joining in Turkish cities such as Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Mersin. There were also demonstrations in pre-dominantly Kurdish cities in Turkey. Mardin, Şırnak, Siirt, Ağrı, Dersim (Tunceli) Urfa, Hakkari were the cities in which Kurdish people stood up for Kobani. For the same purposes, in Diyarbakır, the biggest Kurdish city in Turkey, a demonstration took place with thousands of people joining in. Contrary to the demonstrations on 6-7th October, this one passed peacefully.

Abdullah Ocalan's posters were carried.

In the demonstration, people waving YPG’s flag and YDG-H’s flama, and carrying Abdullah Ocalan’s poster while they shouted slogans such as “Long live the Resistance of Kobani” and “Kurdistan will be the grave for ISIS”.

In the demonstration the Co-chair of the Diyarbakır branch of DBP (Democratic Party of Regions) Zubeyde Zümrüt; Nursel aydogan, MP of HDP (Democratic Party of People’s) and Co-major of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Fırat Anlı held speeches.

Criticizing the ruler party AKP’s (Justice and Development Party) policy and president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statementes about Kobani in her speech, Zubeyde Zumrut said that “Everyone knows who support the IS(IS)” and added “The resistance in Kobani is legimate, and it is humanistic. This resistance is for the honour of humanity”.

Saying that millions of people all around the world are now standing up to be with resistance of Kobani Fırat Anlı, the Co-major of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, continued in his speech with “We know Mahabad with Qadî Mihemed, we remember Halabja with the genocide and know Shengal with the genocide, too. But we do not want to remember Kobani again with another genocide”. He also geeted everyone who acts in solidarity with Kobani. Nursel Aydogan, the MP of HDP also greeted the YPG/YPJ fighters and also Peshmerga forces who crossed to Kobani the night before.

The demonstration ended without any problems. But later on, it is said that some people had been arrested related to demonstration in some neighbourhoods of Bağlar district.