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PRO-KURDISH RIOT DISPERSED IN ISTANBUL
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.03.2008 17:23 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish riot police disperse pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with truncheons in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday,
March 2, 2008, during a protest against Turkey's cross-border ground
incursion into northern Iraq, the AP reports.
Police in Istanbul has battled hundreds of supporters of a pro-Kurdish
party who chanted slogans praising separatist Kurdish rebels during
a protest denouncing Turkey's recent incursion into Iraq. Police
used water canons and tear gas to disperse some 400 members of the
Democratic Society Party, which is frequently accused of links to the
rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. No casualties
are reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.03.2008 17:23 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish riot police disperse pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with truncheons in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday,
March 2, 2008, during a protest against Turkey's cross-border ground
incursion into northern Iraq, the AP reports.
Police in Istanbul has battled hundreds of supporters of a pro-Kurdish
party who chanted slogans praising separatist Kurdish rebels during
a protest denouncing Turkey's recent incursion into Iraq. Police
used water canons and tear gas to disperse some 400 members of the
Democratic Society Party, which is frequently accused of links to the
rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. No casualties
are reported.