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Erdogan 'must be tried as a war criminal,' London rally demands

TURKEY must be treated as a pariah state, protesters in London demanded today, as thousands branded Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a war criminal.

The calls came as Britain’s Kurds and their allies turned central London into a sea of red, yellow and green for the second successive weekend.

They called for people to “Rise up for Rojava” — the semi-autonomous Kurdish enclave of northern Syria — and defend it from invasion by Turkey and its jihadist proxies.

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