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28 Jun 2013

Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

A worker fixes a giant portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at the top of the Ataturk Cultural Center in Istanbul's Taksim SquareBy Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded six on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, officials said. The incident appeared to be the most violent in the region since a ceasefire declaration by Kurdish militant chief Abdullah Ocalan in March that led to a virtual standstill in the conflict between his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish state. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-party-press-turkish-government-protest-marches-102646235.html