(VOVworld) - Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest against Turkey's military crackdown against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels.

Some 15,000 people took part in a protest march in Dusseldorf, Germany, on December 26, 2015 to condemn the latest offensive by the Turkish army against Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast (Photo: AFP/Caroline Seidel)

The marchers near the parliament of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, demonstrating on behalf of Germany's federation of Kurdish groups, Nav-Dem, also slammed the EU for striking a refugee "deal" with Ankara, promising three billion euros in return for holding back refugee flows.

According to a member of the organizing board of the demonstration, at least 200,000 people are fleeing from the eastern and southeastern Turkey where have been besieged over the past several months.