A disabled woman from whom terrorist organization PKK's supporters tried to grab a Turkish flag in London during a solidarity gathering when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came to the U.K. said "Flag is honor, we must own up to it."
Fehiye Kobal, 55, who has lived in British capital for 16 years spoke to Anadolu Agency in northern London where she resides.
Kobal said she arrived in front of 10 Downing Street, where the Turkish president met British premiere Theresa May last Tuesday and was looking for a spot where Turks had gathered to show support for their visiting president.
But then a PKK supporter "tried to take the flag from my hand" while another one was targeting a young man holding a flag, Kobal said.
"The flag is our honor," she said.
"It is my honor. I must own up to my honor. We must all own up to it."
A video surfaced following the Turkish president's visit, showing a man who had covered his face with a red cloth, approaching and trying to grab a Turkish flag from Kobal's hand and another one wearing a hat who pushed the disabled woman from behind.
"The man pushed me -- a woman -- from behind, despite seeing my scooter for the disabled," Kobal said.
"We were there for our president," she said.
The incident came to attention on Thursday when Erdoğan revealed at an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner in Turkey that he called Kobal and praised her actions against the PKK supporters.
"I called and congratulated her today. [I told her:] You are the Nene Hatun or Serife Bacı [two female heroines from Turkey's independence war] of this century."
Kobal said she was very happy because of the call from the president.
Turkey's Consul General Cinar Ergin also visited Kobal on Friday.
Ergin said they visited Kobal to remind her one more time that "our state is with her".
Terrorist PKK supporters caused public disorder and attacked some people in the Turkish group who rallied for their president on Thursday.
Metropolitan Police arrested at least 3 PKK supporters, according to sources in the force.
