Kurds storm EU Parliament building

Kurds in Brussels have forced their way into the European Parliament building, protesting against the Islamic State (IS) militant group and demanding more support for Kurdish forces fighting the IS in Syria, RT reported Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti.

“Some 50 protesters waving flags, some of them depicting Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) broke through security at the EU legislature and occupied the VoxBox multimedia stage,” RT reported.

Also on Tuesday, Kurds organized an anti-IS rally in Berlin and held demonstrations in several other German cities. In London, Kurdish protesters occupied Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2.

On Monday night, Kurdish protesters occupied the Dutch parliament building in The Hague. Kurds are also actively protesting across Turkey, where police reportedly used water cannons and tear gas to disperse demonstrators.

The protests come as Kurdish fighters are struggling to hold on to the Syrian town of Kobani, which is being attacked by IS militants. The IS has been besieging Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, one of the largest towns in the Kurdish region bordering Turkey, for the last three weeks.