TURKEY: TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN KURDISH DEMONSTRATION

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.12.2009 14:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Two people were shot dead and several were wounded
Tuesday during a Kurdish demonstration in southeastern Turkey on the
fifth day of unrest triggered by a court ban on the country’s main
Kurdish party.

The violence in Bulanik town, in the mainly Kurdish province of Mus,
came after protestors attacked shops during a march to denounce the
banning of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the town’s mayor Ziya
Akkaya told.

A shopkeeper, armed with an assault rifle, opened fire on the crowd
after the windows of his shop were broken and his vehicle was torched
by the protestors.

Seven other people were wounded in the attack, the province’s deputy
governor Ali Edip Budan told, adding that the assailant was detained.

There have been daily protests in the southeast and east of Turkey –
as well as major western towns with large numbers of Kurdish migrants
– since Friday when the constitutional court banned the DTP, AFP
reported.