Brawls broke out during a pro-Kurdish demonstration at the Place du Luxembourg in Brussels on Monday, forcing police to intervene, the Brussels Times said.
Kurds held a demonstration of nearly 200 people to protest the European Union’s approach to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who they named “Turkey’s dictator.”
Police cleared the square using water cannons after fights broke out during the protest, according to the Brussels Times.
The demonstration is likely a response to clashes between Syrian Kurds and Turks who held a Newroz celebration on Sunday in Belgium’s Limburg province, when one person was seriously injured and five others received minor wounds.
The Brussels Times said police were called the same day to Heusden-Zolder where a house full of Kurdish people was targeted by hundreds of Turks.
Arife Soysuren, an organizer from the Mouvement des Femmes Kurdes, told the Brussels Times she believed the incident was a premeditated attack by the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organization in response to families bearing Kurdish flags.
