Kurdes : affrontements à Istanbul – 21 août 2011

Escalating PKK tensions stir clashes in city’s heart

hurriyetdailynews.com

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Turkey’s operation in northern Iraq is still continuing but the Kurdish Regional Administration says the issue can only be solved through dialogue as it condemns the military attacks. ‘It is no longer the time for violence or war. It is the time for peace and dialogue,’ the administration says in expressing its discomfort

Tensions over the Turkish military’s cross-border raids against militant targets in northern Iraq erupted in clashes Sunday in central Istanbul’s Taksim Square when police intervened in a group that wanted to protest the army’s actions. The protest group, including pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, deputies Gültan Kışanak, Sebahat Tuncel and Levent Tüzel, began to conduct a sit-down protest amid police attempts to disperse them. Read more…