ANKARA –
The Turkish ministry of Foreign Affairs Saturday, the German ambassador on the mat is called. He had, according to news agency Anadolu explanation to give about a cultural meeting of Kurds in Cologne. Ankara accuses the German authorities of its approval granted for “terreurpropaganda”.
The Kurdish festival in Cologne did Saturday thousands of people. The motto was “Freedom for Ocalan – status for Kurdistan”. The participants demanded to be, thus, the release of the sentenced to life, would the leader of the Kurdish workers party PKK, Abdullah Öcalan.
There was, according to the local media many police on the streets. That was not able to prevent some skirmishes arose by a tegendemonstratie of nationalist Turks. Last year was the international event for security reasons cancelled.