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Arson Attacks Hit Turkish Community Sites in Germany, Kurdish Groups Threaten Worse
Follow up to this report from yesterday.
[AnNahar] Arsonists on Monday struck a Ottoman Turkish community center in Germany, the latest in a string of attacks which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
has sometimes blamed on Kurdish holy warriors amid its military offensive in northern Syria.

Unknown attackers hurled incendiary devices in the center of the town of Ahlen, police said, also telling national news agency DPA they were not ruling out a political motive.

At the weekend Molotov cocktails were thrown at Ottoman Turkish community mosques in Berlin and the town of Lauffen, a cultural centre in Meschede and a Ottoman Turkish vegetable shop in Itzehoe, where the windows of a mosque were also smashed.

No-one was maimed in the attacks.

Police tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
three Syrian men, who denied involvement, after the Meschede attack, DPA reported.

The attacks came on a weekend that saw several demonstrations against Turkey's military operation to oust the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) from the Afrin region of northern Syria.

Pro-Kurdish demonstrators rallied in Hamburg Saturday, where rocks were thrown at the Ottoman Turkish consulate, and on Sunday at Duesseldorf airport some protesters scuffled with police who employed pepper spray.

Turkey's foreign ministry voiced "deep concern" about the attacks and said on Sunday that the incident in Lauffen had been claimed by a group affiliated with the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

It added that there had been "a considerable increase in the number of attacks against Ottoman Turkish mosques in Germany recently by racist and Islamophobic groups as well as the PKK terrorist organization."

"We expect the perpetrators of these attacks to be caught as soon as possible and brought to justice and necessary measures to be taken by the German authorities to prevent the recurrence of such attacks."

On Monday Turkey summoned the German ambassador over the recent upsurge of attacks targeting Ottoman Turkish mosques and cultural associations in Germany, a Ottoman Turkish government front man said.

"The necessary warning was conveyed " to the German ambassador and a diplomatic note sent to Berlin, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.

A pro-Kurdish website has published purported videos of the Lauffen and Meschede attacks, claiming they were carried out by Kurdish youths.

The Kurdish Community in Germany group sharply condemned the attacks as well as social media calls that were "urging Kurdish youths to employ violence against Ottoman Turkish institutions."

Its chairman Ali Ertan Toprak said such attacks "endanger innocent human lives and politically damage primarily the cause of the Kurds while jeopardizing peaceful coexistence in Germany."

Toprak urged Kurds to refrain from violence, stressing that it was unclear whether the attacks were carried out by "supporters of the PKK or the Ottoman Turkish secret service MIT."

Kurdish groups threaten Turkish targets in Europe

[DW] Hundreds of Kurdish protesters continued to hold demonstrations in cities around Germany on Monday evening, including Hamburg, Berlin and Bonn.

Roja Ciwan, a German-Kurdish youth group, showed videos of some of the attacks on its website.

In a Monday posting, it said that European states that stand by or support the Ottoman Turkish military operation will pay a price.

"The European states must understand that we will not stand by and watch as our people are massacred in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan). The previous actions are not enough; here and today it is time to carry the war back to Europe."

The targets include Ottoman Turkish embassies and Ottoman Turkish groups with links to the government in Ankara as well as stores and cafes, Roja Ciwan said. The group also threatened the offices of Merkel's conservatives, the Social Democrats, courts and police.

"Whoever supports or defends the war against our people must pay. When nobody listens we will turn the downtowns of Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
into rubble and ash. Regardless of how or what burns on this day, Europe must understand that we will not allow Afrin to fall," the youth group said.

A similar call went out from the Apoist Youth Initiative, a pan-European anti-fascist
...anybody not a leftist...
group that follows imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is known to his supporters as "Apo."

The call to action comes as Kurds prepare to celebrate the Newroz new year on March 21, a holiday that carries heavy political undertones for Kurds around the themes of resistance and oppression.

Kurdish groups in Germany are organized under a plethora of acronyms, with most groups falling under the umbrella organization NAV-DEM. The movement gets support from Kurdish nationalists and politicians from the left.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency considers NAV-DEM to be closely linked to the PKK, which it calls "the biggest and most powerful foreign Lion of Islam organization in Germany."

The PKK and its myriad linked sub-organizations have been known to directly or indirectly operate youth wings.

The Berlin-based Kurdish Center for Public Relations (Civaka Azad), which is close to NAV-DEM, told DW that they have nothing to do with Roja Ciwan.

"We are currently concentrating on preventing possible attacks and massacres on the civilian population in Afrin and calling on Germany to ensure The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
complies with international law," a spokesperson said.

Concerns about Ottoman Turkish-Kurdish festivities in Germany
Germany is home to 3 million people of Ottoman Turkish origin. About a third are ethnic Kurds who came to work here in the 1960s and '70s, followed by another wave in the 1980s and '90s, fleeing conflict and persecution.

German officials have long voiced concern about conflicts between Kurdish nationalists and the Ottoman Turkish state spilling over into Germany.

There were repeated festivities and attacks in Germany during the height of the conflict between Kurds and Turkey in the 1980s and '90s.

For six years, Afrin has been controlled by the YPG, a Kurdish militia that is affiliated with the PKK. The militia is the main component of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighting against the "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-13
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