Rome, December 12 (RHC)-- Hundreds of students in Italy have held an anti-war protest rally to condemn international arms trade and military spending. The demonstration was staged on Friday outside the Turkish embassy and the headquarters of the country’s biggest bank, UniCredit, both in the center of the northern Italian city of Milan.

Students carried signs with the numbers of people killed in the wars in the Mediterranean region. They also wrote “Stop War, not People” on the ground in front of the banking giant, and "No future without culture" outside the Turkish consulate.

Student organizers of the protest told reporters that the Italian bank UniCredit is selling weapons around the world.

The demonstration outside the Turkish embassy came days after Turkey sent hundreds of troops to a camp near Iraq’s northern city of Mosul a week ago without the coordination with the Iraqi government. Iraq has vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty.