Germany: Hundreds march through Frankfurt for pro-Kurdistan rally

Hundreds of protesters rallied in central Frankfurt on Sunday in solidarity with Kurdistan and in support of the Turkish pro-Kurd HDP party. The demonstration came on the same day as national elections take place in Turkey, with the ruling AKP seeking to regain its outright majority, and the pro-Kurd and leftwing HDP seeking to repeat its previous electoral showing which saw the party gain over 10 percent and representation in the Turkish parliament for the first time in its history. Ethnic and political tensions remain high in Turkey following a bomb that killed over 100 demonstrators at a HDP-organised peace rally in Ankara earlier last month.