Protesters have marched through Hull city centre in support of Kobane, the strategic Syrian town under attack by Islamic State militants.
About 200 people, shouting and waving placards, marched through Spring Bank, Ferensway and into the city centre.
The march included members of Hull's Kurdish community.
Davan Yahya Khalil, a Kurdish writer who lives in Hull, appealed to people to open their eyes to the plight of people in Kobane.
He said: "We are appealing to the international community so they can support Kobane.
"We are appealing to all nationalities, in the west and particularly in the UK. We don't want to lose any more children or any more women.
"We are all working together here, not for our own parties, but our own Kurdish community and to respect the Kurdish flag.
"We are living in the 21st Century. We thought genocide was a thing in the past but they are trying to do it again to our people and we don't want people to close their eyes and see nothing."
Mr Khalil said he was impressed by the turnout for the march, which was arranged at short notice.
He said: "I am so proud, so proud of our people, they are all passionate and this has really made me very impressed."
Fighting around Kobane has been raging for three weeks, cost hundreds of lives and forced more than 160,000 Syrians to cross the border into Turkey.
The town is seen as an important strategic objective for IS because its capture would give them control of a large stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
The US and UK have warned Western air strikes will not be enough to prevent IS taking the town. Turkey has suggested creating a "buffer zone" along the Syrian side of the border.
