Kurds Occupy Embassy

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## author     : trh at NETCOM.COM
## date       : 05.07.94

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KURDS OCCUPY GERMAN EMBASSY IN ATHENS

BONN, July 4 (Reuter) - About 50 Kurdish protesters occupied
Bonn's embassy in the Greek capital of Athens...Monday for
three hours to protest the death of a Kurdish youth shot by
German police last week.

A Bonn Foreign Ministry spokesman said the protesters
occupied an embassy waiting room, spraying slogans on the
walls and unrolling banners of the militant Kurdish Workers'
Party (PKK), which is banned in Germany.

No one was injured and the Kurds left peacefully. The
spokesman said he did not know whether any protesters were
arrested by Greek police outside the embassy.

Militant Kurds attacked police stations across Germany at
the weekend in apparent retaliation for the killing of a
16-year-old Ayhan Eser, a Turkish Kurd shot by a policeman.

Eser had been detained as he put up posters for banned
Kurdish separatists. Police say...findings indicate the shot
went off accidentally in the struggle.

Militant Kurds are fighting for an independent homeland in
southeast Turkey and have protested against what they see as
Germany's support for Turkish repression.