More than 20,000 people participated in the protests that were held Friday in Austria’s capital city Vienna, and in connection with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Austria, but solely 8,000 of the participants were against Erdogan. 

A total of 14,000 Erdogan supporters took part in the demonstrations and the remaining 8,000 protestors were Armenians, Kurds, Assyrians, and Alawites, an Austrian-Armenian community representative told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The Armenian National Committee in Austria delivered speeches. There was also a melee during the demonstrations, but, fortunately, no one was affected,” the representative said adding that the Armenians were not involved in the clashes.