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Violence flares in Turkey's tense southeast after mayors' arrest
[Ynet] Five members of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's security forces and five Kurdish faceless myrmidons were killed on Thursday in festivities in the southeast where unrest has flared since the arrest this week of two popular mayors. Two soldiers were killed in a clash near Hani, a town outside Diyarbakir, the region's biggest city, security sources said. A third died in a firefight near Cukurca near the Iraqi border, where five faceless myrmidons were also killed, they said. A soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in Bingol, 140 km north of Diyarbakir, and a member of a state-backed militia was killed in Batman province to the east. Violence has escalated in the 15 months since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) called off a two-year ceasefire, and the arrest of Diyabakir Mayor Gultan Kisanak and her co-mayor Firat Anli late on Tuesday on terrorism charges has caused further resentment. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-28 |
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