Jan 2019 - my london diary - photographs of protests and events in London by Peter Marshall

Defend Rojava from Turkish invasion

London. 27th January 2019

'Women Rise Up For Afrin'

An orange flare is set off as the march begins

'The Martyrs Are Immortal' banner with eight portraits of people killed after going out to join the YPG/YPJ

More flares at Oxford Circus

and people get out PKK flags

A police officer talks to people holding PKK flags

Police made an attempt to snatch people holding PKK flags but were prevented by the crowd. Police reinforcements

arrived and watched the march in two large groups

Mark Campbell tells the police they should not be hounding the Kurds who are leading the fight against ISIS

The UK government has always supported Turkey, a fellow NATO member, agains the Kurds and proscribed

the PKK in 2001. Britain has ignored the long campaign of repression against the Kurds by the Turkish government

The police stood in a large group and watched the march as he spoke. They didn't attack the march again, and

I think the people who had carried the PKK flags had disappeared.

Eventually the march moved on from Piccadilly Circus

and marched towards Trafalgar Square

where some posed for photographs

and then there was some music and dancing. I took a few pictures, but there was too much rain on my lenses
for them to be worth posting.

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