Members of the Kurdish community in Australia and their supporters held an emergency protest on March 17 in Sydney Town Hall Square to join the global protests over serious concerns about the wellbeing of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. The previous evening at a special Newroz event the NSW Parliament, the call for Öcalan to be allowed to meet with his family and lawyers immediately. Video footage courtesy of Ismet Tastan.
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