On 6 October 2014, the Kurds in the Netherlands "stormed the national parliament building in The Hague on Monday night in a protest against
ISIS" offensive on the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, known in Kurdish as Kobani. On 13 May 2015, "Dutch police raided a secret meeting of members of the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Netherlands". The office of Dutch prosecutors explained "that the Kurdish
PKK recruits young Kurds in the Netherlands for its armed struggle against the
Turkish army". The Kurdish minority within the state of Turkey "who want more autonomy for
Turkish Kurdistan, but Turkey refuses to give it". == Notable people ==