ANKARA, Turkey—Police on Monday clashed with a group of Kurds following a protest by some 5,000 people denouncing a days-long curfew imposed by the government in one neighborhood in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Two people were killed, a human rights group said.
Police used water cannons to break up the demonstration organized by Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party and also clashed with a group who set up a barricade and set fires on a road in Diyarbakir. Raci Bilici of the Turkish Human Rights Association said two people were killed in the clashes.
Turkey is imposing 24-hour curfews that last for days in towns and districts in southeastern Turkey as the security forces battle Kurdish militants who dig up ditches or set up barricades.
