Emeute à Hopa : un mort – 31 mai 2011

Clashes break out at campaign rally for Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan

Cnn

May 31, 2011

By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — At least one demonstrator died and a bodyguard protecting Turkey’s prime minister was hospitalized after clashes erupted around a campaign rally Tuesday, less than two weeks before Turks go to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections.

The violence erupted in the Black Sea town of Hopa, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to address a rally.

Turkish television showed protesters hurling stones and climbing police barricades, as security forces fired tear gas and water cannons to break up the demonstration.

An emergency room doctor confirmed to CNN that a demonstrator named Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack after being brought to the emergency room of Hopa State Hospital.

But in a statement released on the website of the opposition Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP), the party’s deputy chairman Onder Isleyen accused Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of killing the protester. Read more…