Turkish curfews attempt to manage rising street violence

Turkey’s Kurds pour their anger into the streets and the government declares a curfew in five predominantly Kurdish cities.
Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade set up to block the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir October 7, 2014. At least 12 people died on Tuesday during violent clashes across Turkey, local media reported, as the fate of the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani stirred up decades of tensions with Turkey's Kurdish minority. Violence erupted in Turkish towns and cities mainly in the Kurdish southeastern provinces, as protesters took to the streets to demand the government do more to pro
Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade set up to block the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir, Oct. 7, 2014. At least 18 people died in violent clashes across Turkey as the fate of the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani stirred up decades of tensions with Turkey's Kurdish minority. - REUTERS
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The almost 4-year-old Syrian civil strife is threatening to spill over into Turkey. Turkey’s Kurds vented their anger in the streets across the country Oct. 7, warning the government that if it idly stands by while the Kurdish-dominated Syrian border town of Kobani falls to the Islamic State (IS), peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will end and a new round of armed conflict in Turkey will begin.

Members of Huda-Par (Free Cause Party), an Islamist Kurdish organization, clashed with pro-PKK crowds, especially in the country’s eastern and southeastern provinces.

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