Turkish Terror Serhildan Hakkari ( Gever) 23 . Marc 2008

A second person has been killed in clashes between Kurdish protesters and police in South East Turkey in the fourth day of running street battles sparked by celebrations to mark the Spring festival, Newroz.




Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports
Turkish Terror Serhildan Hakkari ( Gever) 23 . Marc 2008
Newroz 2008 Amed ( Diyarbekir ) 1 Milyon Kürt Kutladi /
Dozens were injured and 300 detained Saturday as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Kurdish and Turkish cities, police and media reports said.

Three officials from the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) were among those detained on charges of provoking the unrest.

The disturbances erupted when celebrations marking March 21, Newroz day, or the Kurdish New Year, degenerated into demonstrations in favour of the armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The worst clashes took place in the Kurdishcity of Van, where 132 people were rounded up and 53 others, including 15 policemen, were injured, local police chief Mehmet Salih Kesmez said.

DTP provincial chairman Abdurrahman Dogar and his deputy Necmi Kalcik were among those detained, he told Anatolia news agency, adding that the police also raided the DTP office in Van and seized "illegal" publications.

Three demonstrators and a policeman were in intensive care after the clashes, he said.

Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a crowd of some 1,500 people, who chanted slogans in favour of the PKK and its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, set bonfires and barricades in the streets and broke the windows of shops and government buildings, media reports said.

Footage on the Turkish NTV news channel showed officers hitting protestors with batons and armored vehicles spraying pressurized water on the crowd.

Young men, hiding their faces behind cloths wrapped around their heads, were seen hurling stones at the police, who took cover behind plastic shields.

Kesmez blamed the unrest on DTP organisers, who defied a decision by Van authorities to allow Newroz gatherings only on Friday.

Two DTP parliament members were also among the crowd.

Another 93 people were rounded up in similar unrest in Sanlurfa, Anatolia reported, adding that 16 protestors were detained in nearby Viransehir late Friday after Molotov cocktails were hurled at the police, injuring nine officers.

Sixteen people, among them three policemen, were wounded and at least 17 protestors taken into custody in Hakkari, near the Iraqi border, and in nearby Siirt, the agency said.

Newroz festivities in other parts of the Kurdish-majority southeast Friday and Saturday were largely peaceful.

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[kocacinarim]

Önce kundaktaki masum bebeleri kurşuna dizdiniz!

Sağ kalanlar cahil kalsın,gerçeği oğrenmesin diye öğretmenlerini öldürdünüz. Okullarını yaktınız.

Böylelikle eğitimsiz genç beyinleri daha kolay uyuşturacak, yeni bebek katilleri kazanacaktınız.

Şimdi Şehirlerde , yine ÇOCUKLARI ve KADINLARI Kullanarak,Güvenlik güçlerini taşlattırıyorsunuz.

Tam size yakışan bir alçaklık örneği!

[muss1905]

kardesim Turk kimliginizi geri verin ozman olmayan kurdistana gidin yoksa iraka mi... turklerin ekmegini yersin bide kafa tutarsin nebicim is bu Helal olsun Turk Polisine yermisin yemezmisin haha

[nokemas]

north of the iraq is kurdhistan, take your fucking asses to your country

[darknessphobiaify]

@83hersh83 you homeless bugs... you dont understand our language but ure talkin in english :)) is there a language called kurdish? im not able to talk like an animal sorry... i dont mind if you dress like a kurd but im really curious about the flag where is it? learning kurdish? go fuck yourself little bug you have lived until this day because we didnt pressed your worthless heads. go on living like bugs you shitty bugs... you must be proud that i replied you ;)

[83hersh83]

@darknessphobiaify im a Kurd ,,so if you dont mind i dont understant your shity language.

where i live i speak kurdish, dress like a kurd and have our kurdistan flag high.

if you like to reply to my comment you better go and learn kurdish.

[darknessphobiaify]

@83hersh83 senin ananı sikerim ne ihaneti memlekete ihanet eden orospu ewladı seni. Siktir git al bacını da ananı da ırağa yoksa sike sike kalbura cevircez haberiniz olsun

[83hersh83]

@cengaver2727

You are not a Kurd! Even if you are, you are a betrayer!!

[roninaga]

Yasadıgı yerden memnun olmayan terk etsin...

[parolaiki]

@kocacinarim saidi nursi gelecegi gördügü icin ta o zamanlar osmanli padisahlari bitmeden son olarak üniversite istiyordu van,a ama siz atatürkcüler isam alimlerini asip laik olmayi sectiniz kürtlere okul yaptirmayip cahil kalip türklestirmek istediniz tipki suanki cerkez laz ve arnavutlar gibi bulgarlar gibi onlar kendilerini satip gercek türklerden daha cok ayrimcilik yapiyorlar ama biz kürtler öyle yapmadik direndik. filistin oldumu kardesimiz diyorsunuz israili sucluyorsunuz peki sizinkiler

[bozkurtsiken23]

BIJI PKK

[ibrahim19751]

police around the world help people but in turkey the police terrorising the the people .thats how police with the help of securty service are attacking the kurds , turkey must stop killing the kurds and give them some rights and freedom .