Stop bombing Ghouta: People throng outside Russian Consulate in Istanbul to protest against Syrian airstrikes

At least 14 civilians including three children were killed in strikes on Sunday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, bringing the total number of dead in the week to 530, among them over 130 children.

People holding pictures of victims of the airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, gather during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP 

People chant anti-Russia slogans, protest attacks on rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital Damascus, during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

People holding pictures of victims of the airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, gather during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

Former Syrian opposition leader George Sabra, centre, chants slogans, as he joins others protesting attacks on rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital Damascus, during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

A woman holds a child amidst Syrian flags as she joins others protesting attacks on rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital Damascus, during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

A demontrator holds up a banner during a protest against the attacks on the rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital, outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

People holding pictures of victims of the airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, gather during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

A group of people, including prominent Syrian opposition figures, chant anti-Russian slogans during a protest against the attacks on the rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital, outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. | AP

Members of Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Future Movement, hold placards during a sit-in in solidarity with residents of the Syrian capital's eastern suburbs of Ghouta, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. | AP

Lebanese Sunni clerics hold a placard during a protest in solidarity with residents of the Syrian capital's eastern suburb of Ghouta, in front the Russian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. | AP

Members of Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Future Movement, hold a placard in Arabic that reads: 'Eastern Ghouta is Syria's Gaza,' during a sit-in in solidarity with residents of the Syrian capital's eastern suburbs of Ghouta, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. | AP

A Lebanese woman holds a placard during a protest in solidarity with residents of the Syrian capital's eastern suburb of Ghouta, in front the Russian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. | AP