Turkey: two people killed in Kurdish demonstration
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.
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.
