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Rooftop protest at Airbus factory in Filton
A group of three protesters have camped out on top of a roof within the Airbus complex in Filton.
They are protesting at the company’s sale of military hardware to the Turkish army, timing their occupation with the arrival in the UK by Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Illustrated banners of female fighters killed in action with the YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) have been unfurled by the protesters.
The banners include one of Anna Campbell, who used to work in Cafe Kino on Stokes Croft before she was killed in an airstrike on March 15 in Syria.
Protesters on the Airbus roof unfurl a banner showing Anna Campbell
One of the rooftop occupiers, Liz, said: “The Bristol arms industry wants to pretend that the people it kills don’t have stories. So we have brought them the face of our friend, and the heroes who inspired her.”
Fellow protester Paul added: “As evidence mounts that Erdogan’s government are recruiting former ISIS and al-Qaeda fighters, Theresa May is sitting down with this known human rights abuser to sell him more weapons.
“She is complicit in the death of Anna, YPJ fighters and hundreds of Kurdish civilians. It’s simple, we
have to stop arming Turkey. Now.”
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