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| The Grand Turk |
| Clashes, Kurdish militant bombing kill 9 in Turkey |
| 2015-09-14 |
| [ARABNEWS] Kurdish holy warriors killed two coppers in a car kaboom on a checkpoint in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Sunday, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region's largest city Diyarbakir where festivities broke out, security sources said. Turkish forces backed up by helicopters and commandos shelled a mountainous area where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters had fled after the checkpoint attack in Sirnak province, killing six of them, the sources added. A police officer was reported killed in another confrontation. The Diyarbakir governor's office said it had placed the central historic Sur district under a round-the-clock curfew. Security sources said seven coppers were maimed in festivities there. In other central areas of the city, police fired tear gas and water cannon at small groups of youths who threw stones and tried to set up street barricades in protest against the curfew. Speaking to news hounds near the Sur district, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, called for the Turkish state and PKK leadership across the border in Iraq's Qandil mountains to halt the violence and return to peace talks. "Both Ankara and Qandil must take a position that responds to the people's expectation with a clear, concrete project," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Erdogan must like the situation in Syria. He seems to be taking Turkey in the same direction. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2015-09-14 10:31 |