Protesters in Beirut demonstrate against Turkish offensive into Syria

Record ID: 1436475

  • Title: Protesters in Beirut demonstrate against Turkish offensive into Syria
  • Date: 13th October 2019
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LEBANESE KURDISH-PROTESTER, GHAZALA RAMMA, SAYING: "I want to wish upon the European countries, I ask all Arab countries to sympathise with us. We, the Kurdish people, love everyone and love peace. We extend our hand for peace, Erdogan extends his hand in blood for us. It's enough, we can't bear more than this and a catastrophe will happen. If things stay as they are, the situation will get a lot worse." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN JOINING IN DEMONSTRATION PROTESTERS STANDING BEHIND BANNER AND WAVING KURDISH FLAGS PROTESTERS HOLDING UP IMAGES OF PEOPLE PROTESTER WITH HIS FACE COVERED BY A FLAG / POSTER IN BACKGROUND READING (English) 'Rise Up For Rojava' PROTESTERS GATHERED IN DOWNTOWN BEIRUT
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2019 13:20
  • Keywords: Turkish military operation in Syria Tel Abyad Kurds living in Lebanon protest Kurds Syria Beirut Turkey
  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • City: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA005B0XHXDZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Around 200 Kurds living in Lebanon gathered in central Beirut on Sunday (October 13) to protest against Turkey's military action in northeast Syria.
    Children also joined the protest with one girl holding a banner reading 'Stop bombing my city... don't kill our children'.
    Ankara launched the cross-border assault against the YPG militia after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew some U.S. troops from the border region. Turkey says the YPG is a terrorist group aligned with Kurdish militants in Turkey.
    Turkey's stated objective is to set up a "safe zone" inside Syria to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it has been hosting. Erdogan has threatened to send them to Europe if the EU does not back his assault.
    But the Turkish incursion has raised international alarm over large-scale displacements of civilians and, amidst the upheaval, the possibility of Islamic State militants escaping from prisons run by the Kurdish-led authorities.
    (Production: Ahmad El Kerdi, Alaa Kanaan, Yara Abi Nader)
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