14 dead in Turkey as protests rage over Kobane
9 Oct 2014 6:42 AM IST
At least 14 people were killed as pro-Kurdish protests raged across Turkey on Wednesday over the government’s failure to act against jihadists attacking the majority-Kurdish Syrian border city of Kobane.
The disturbances are the worst outbreak of such violence in years and risk derailing Turkey’s peace process with the Kurds.
In a move unprecedented since the deadliest days of the Kurdish insurgency in the 1990s, the army was deployed to impose a curfew in several cities in the east.
The violence was concentrated in the mainly Kurdish southeast but also flared in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities, with empty buses firebombed and protesters hurling stones at police.
The disturbances are the worst outbreak of such violence in years and risk derailing Turkey’s peace process with the Kurds.
In a move unprecedented since the deadliest days of the Kurdish insurgency in the 1990s, the army was deployed to impose a curfew in several cities in the east.
The violence was concentrated in the mainly Kurdish southeast but also flared in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities, with empty buses firebombed and protesters hurling stones at police.
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