The World - News from Aug. 7, 1989
Kurdish demonstrators occupied the Eiffel Tower for more than two hours to protest Turkey’s alleged mistreatment of Kurds. Police said that about 200 Kurds gathered at the foot of the central Paris landmark while 100 others climbed a quarter of the way up the 984-foot tower and unfurled three red and yellow banners reading: “End the Massacre and the Deportation of Kurdistan.” Scuffles broke out around the base of the tower when about 40 police pushed back a group of more than 50 demonstrators. Two Kurdish hunger strikers died in a Turkish jail last week.
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