The President of the European Parliament (EP) Martin Schulz met with Kurdish protesters who broke into the EP building today.
Protesters are demanding swift military action against Islamic State (ISIL) militants to save the predominantly Kurdish Syrian city of Kobane from destruction.
A number of Kurdish protesters broke into the EP, and Schulz met with their representatives to listen to their complaints and demands while insisting that they end their protests peacefully, the EP said in a statement.
"Although I pointed out that this is not the way to express demands, I told them that I fully share their concern about the situation in which the civilian population in Syria and Iraq is, especially when it comes to the situation in the border town of Kobane in Syria," he said. said Schultz after the meeting.
As he said, he repeated to the representatives of the demonstrators that the EP supports the international coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
"In this regard, I will talk with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Council Herman van Rompie and High Representative Catherine Ashton," concluded Schulz.
About 50 demonstrators broke through the security of the EP building today and occupied the "Vox Box" multimedia stage, carrying flags, including some with the picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who is in prison, the Russian channel "Rasha Today" reported. ".
Kurds in Europe are asking European Union authorities to send more concrete military aid to the US-led coalition fighting ISIL.
The incident in Brussels occurred after the Kurds broke into the Dutch parliament building in The Hague during the night as a sign of protest, and last night Kurdish demonstrators also demonstrated against ISIL in several Austrian cities.
Kobane, a city located on Syria's border with Turkey, has been the scene of clashes between ISIL and Kurdish forces for two weeks, and now it has apparently fallen into the hands of the terrorist organization, which has planted its flag over the city.
For more than three weeks, the Syrian Kurds have been fighting fierce battles with the jihadists of the Islamic State, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
The Kurds occupied the premises of SPO Tirol
In order to draw attention to the difficult situation in Syria, a group of Kurds temporarily occupied the premises of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPO) of the Tyrol province in Innsbruck today.
About 40 Kurds stormed the staircase of the building and asked the SPO deputies present to put pressure on the federal SPO, i.e. the government, to react to the occupation of Kobane by the Islamic State (ISIL), APA reported.
The Kurds, as they emphasized, wanted to use this action to point out the situation in the town of Kobane, which is besieged by ISIL jihadists.
In the conversation with the members of the SPO, it was decided to issue a statement in which the head of Austrian diplomacy, Sebastian Kurz, was invited to immediately call the Turkish ambassador and clearly formulate Austria's protest against the events in the region.
Also, the present SPO MP Gizela Wurm announced that she will put the situation in Kobane on the agenda of the next session of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Austrian Parliament.
Last night, in several cities of Austria, Kurds held protests pointing out the situation in the town of Kobane.
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