'Powderkeg' in Germany amid Turks-Kurds conflict

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Of the roughly three million people with Turkish nationality or roots living in Germany, around one million are Kurds.

Syrian Kurd Mohamed Zidik, 76, still buys his bread and baklavas from Turkish neighbours in Berlin, but he knows better than to expound on his views about Ankara's offensive in his hometown.

"We have a responsibility to prevent the conflict in the region from becoming a conflict in our society," she said in an interview with the Funke newspaper group. Smaller pro-Kurdish demonstrations of between a few hundred and a thousand people, took place in Paris and the Swiss towns of Geneva, Bern and Lucerne.

"For now, all we have left is protest," the student acknowledged bitterly, underlining the helplessness he felt over the lot of fellow Kurds. "Turks and Kurds, we live, work and sometimes we laugh together there or here in Germany. My colleague is Kurdish and that's fine. But the PKK is something else," she added.

 

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