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Riot Breaks Out in Paris Airport over Deportation of Kurdish Activist

Riots broke out at a Paris airport during an attempt to deport Kurdish activists, with dozens of men clashing with French immigration and law enforcement officials.

Chaos broke out at Charles de Gaulle Airport on Wednesday as about 20 supporters of Kurdish activist Fiaz Korkmaz scuffled with police and civilian airport staff who tried to prevent him from being transferred to his homeland of Turkey. eventually, Sentries stationed at the airport were forced to quell the riot inside the terminal, European Broadcasting Corporation reported. report.

Before the riot, supporters were joined by several local Communist Party officials. include Margate Marianne, Pierre Barros and Rafael Prime protested the deportation of leftist Kurdish activists.

Korkmaz’s dismissal came after he took part in a protest outside the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg on February 26 in support of Abdullah Öcalan, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). It is said that this was the trigger. Terrorist organizations in the European Union, the United States, Turkey, etc.

Mr. Öcalan served as leader of the PKK at the start of a series of armed Kurdish uprisings against the Turkish government. He was abducted by Turkish intelligence in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1999 and taken to a prison on Turkey’s Imrali Island, where he is believed to remain.

According to Türkiye’s state-run Anadolu Agency, Korkmaz exiled to Turkey despite attempts to prevent his removal.

Talk to French Communist Party officials Rumanité Last week’s newspaper, Korkmaz claimed He claimed to have been merely a supporter of the left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP), previously supported by Turkish President Recep Erdoğan. claimed Although it is functionally “equivalent” to the PKK, it remains a legal political party in the country.

Korkmaz claims he will face persecution if returned to Turkey, where he currently faces a prison sentence.

Julien Adubairo, regional secretary of the SGP Police Central Services Division, said Wednesday’s violence “raises security questions for police officers” and raised the possibility of similar incidents happening again, possibly during the next Olympics. I was warned that there would be.

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