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    Germany bans Kurdish PKK, YPG flags, Ocalan’s pictures: Spiegel

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    Germany bans Kurdish PKK, YPG flags, Ocalan’s pictures: Spiegel Empty Germany bans Kurdish PKK, YPG flags, Ocalan’s pictures: Spiegel

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    Germany bans Kurdish PKK, YPG flags, Ocalan’s pictures: Spiegel
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    Kurdish demonstrators carry a flag showing Abdullah Ocalan and PKK/YPG flags in Hanover, Germany. Photo: Reuters
    BERLIN,— Germany has reportedly banned a total of 33 symbols used by Kurdish political and military groups, including the flag of a US ally in Syrian Kurdistan, YPG militia, and a portrait of Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader. The move comes amid Germany’s tensions with Turkey.
    In a letter, seen by German [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] newspaper on Friday, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maziere allegedly ordered a wide range of symbols associated with Kurdish politics to be banned from public display in Germany. The five-page document with respective instructions and the attached list of prohibited images was forwarded by the minister to regional authorities and federal law enforcement on March 2, according to the outlet.
    Among the images is the portrait of Kurdish leader and Kurdistan’s Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Ocalan who is serving a life sentence for forming an armed organization in Turkey. Justifying the necessity of the move, De Maziere allegedly argued that banners with Ocalan’s portraits against yellow and yellow-green background have “a significant emotional impact” and therefore should be forbidden as they are “especially suited to promote cohesion of PKK which is banned in Germany.”

    The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of the country’s 79-million population.
    A large Kurdish community in Turkey and worldwide openly sympathise with PKK rebels and Abdullah Ocalan, who founded the PKK group in 1974, and has a high symbolic value for most Kurds in Turkey and worldwide according to observers.
    The yellow banners featuring Ocalan’s image been become a frequent sight at the rallies staged by German PKK supporters who are demanding the release of their incarcerated leader.
    Although PKK has been outlawed in Germany since 1993, meaning its insignia has also been banned, this has not prevented those who stay loyal to the party from brandishing the yellow flags at multiple Kurdish rallies across Germany held through the years since its introduction.
    Germany is home to around 700,000 Kurdish immigrants.
    Apart from Ocalan’s portrait, the Interior Ministry has reportedly also blacklisted the banner of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a military wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan, which is viewed by the Turkish government as an affiliate of PKK and thus a terrorist organization. But the Kurdish-led YPG is also the main force behind the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an ally of the US in the fight against Islamic State (IS, Daesh) in Syria.

    U.S regards the Kurdish PYD party and its powerful military wing YPG of Syrian Kurdistan as key ally against Islamic State and the most effective fighting force against IS in Syria and has provided them with arms, air support as well as the military advisers. The Kurdish militia has seized swathes of Syria from IS.
    Close cooperation between the US military and the YPG has repeatedly drawn Ankara’s ire, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling on his NATO ally to withdraw its backing from the group.
    “We are your NATO ally. How on Earth can you support terrorist organizations and not us? Are these terrorist organizations your NATO allies?” Erdogan said in December, following the reports of US forces supplying weapons to the YPG.
    Few details have been revealed about other points of the list, which is said to consist of 33 symbols belonging to PKK and its subsidiaries.
    The ministry itself, however, denied speculation that the move is aimed at appeasing Ankara, arguing that it regularly monitors if the ban on certain group’s insignia should be specified according to the way this group operates.
    The already strained relations between Germany and Turkey have recently been going through a particularly rocky phase after several campaign events planned by Erdogan supporters in German cities have been canceled for “security concerns.” The rallies, which were to be visited by senior Turkish government officials, were supposed to be held in support of the controversial constitutional reform that would give the Turkish president extensive powers if voted for in a referendum in April.
    The cancellation of the rallies caused a sharp response from Erdogan, who equated the move to “Nazi practices.” The bold comparison has further alienated the two countries, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying that that Erdogan’s remark was “so out of place as to be unworthy of serious comment.”

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