"It is very difficult to predict what will happen here. It is safe to say that our aim is to go peacefully, but with the tense feelings of everyone here it could get out of control," says Mr Zinar Hogir, a spokesman for the Kurdish Information Centre in London, an organisation which it is believed is linked to Mr Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Standing shivering in the cold with up to 500 Kurds outside the Greek Embassy in London, Mr Hogir explains in a calm but firm voice exactly what the Kurds want from the British government and the heads of governments in all European Union countries. "It has been clearly indicated by the British government and other governments that they would use force to intervene in the Kosovan crisis," he says, "then why not use the same threat against the Turkish government."
Later he softens his line when he tells The Irish Times that the protesters want the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook, to intervene and solve the Kurdish question "through peaceful means" by demanding that the Turkish government end the killing of Kurds. "The Kurdish question is a hundred times worse than Yugoslavia and there is the killing of the Turkish army. Why not answer the Kurdish question? Are we the sacrificial sheep? It is now time to intervene to bring about a political initiative within the European community. Ocalan should be tried in an independent court," he adds.
The demonstrators also want assurances from the British government that it will send an all-party delegation to Turkey to ensure that Mr Ocalan receives a fair trial. The Foreign Office said last night that it would be "underlining to the Turkish government the importance of the trial being conducted in strict accordance with the rule of law and due process and of Mr Ocalan's physical safety being assured." Barricaded inside the Greek Embassy, just off Holland Park Avenue in the fashionable suburb of SW7, between 40 and 50 protesters said yesterday - the second day of their protest - they were on hunger strike. In a thinly-veiled warning to the international community they said that unless a peaceful solution could be found to the Kurdish problem within two weeks, violence would erupt in Turkey.
Ozgur, a spokesman for the protesters warns the film of Mr Abdullah Ocalan in the custody of Turkish intelligence officers shown on television screens yesterday was an attempt by the Turkish government to anger Kurds: "They did this because they are trying to provoke us, but they will fail. This is a dirty war." The protesters inside the Embassy are prepared to die for their cause, he says, while the protesters outside show just as much determination to dig in for the long haul.
With police mounting a heavy operation to contain the protesters in a side street close to the Embassy - they were moved from Holland Park Avenue where they were blocking the traffic - the scene resembles a small floodlit sports field with police search lights and television cameras illuminating the Kurds as they sing and chant "revenge, revenge". Kurdish women and children have claimed the mattresses at the centre of the group while most of the men stand around smoking cigarettes and chatting in small groups, their leaders giving interviews to camera.
Earlier, the Kurds held a silent vigil for the three Kurds shot dead by Israeli guards outside the Israeli consulate in Berlin. Mr Hogir says the Kurds are obviously upset about the deaths "and when you hear the Kurds chant the slogan 'revenge, revenge' then that should tell you in itself how they feel".
Last night, with the protesters still chanting their slogans, the Labour MP, Mr Tony Benn, visited the site and read out a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary calling for the presence of international observers at Mr Ocalan's trial.