2 Killed in Clashes in Turkey as Kurds Denounce Curfew
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 use water cannons and teargas to break up a protest by some 5,000 people, denouncing a government-imposed curfew in the historical city center, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Turkey is imposing dayslong curfews in towns and districts in southeast Turkey as the security forces battle Kurdish militants who dig up ditches or set up barricades. AP Photo/Mahmut Bozarslan
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.
