French Police Fire Tear Gas to Break Up Turk-Kurd Clashes
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
French police fired tear gas to break up clashes that erupted between Turkish protesters and supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in central Paris on Sunday.
Around 150 young Turks waving their national flag and singing patriotic songs gathered on the Place de la Bastille to protest "terrorism in Turkey" after an attack by PKK rebels that killed 24 earlier this month.
Youths saying they were PKK supporters hurled stones and other objects at the gathering before police fired tear gas to disperse the Kurds.
One of the Turkish protest's organizers, Hakan Fakili, said that 10 people were injured.
Turkey launched a wide army operation against the PKK after they carried out a series of attacks that killed 24 soldiers and injured 18 others in Cukurca town of Hakkari province near the Iraqi border on October 18.
The latest attack of the PKK caused the biggest loss for the army since 1993, when the PKK rebels killed 33 unarmed soldiers.
Clashes between the PKK and the army have escalated since the summer.
The PKK listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community took up arms for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
Turkey's last ground incursion into northern Iraq, an autonomous Kurdish region, was in February 2008, when the army struck against the Zap region.
30 October 2011, 20:05
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yelli bil3ab bilnar bihrok sabi3o,, turkey before giving lessons in democracy should appologies for its genocide of 2 miillion armenian in the beggenning of century and of erasing from the map at least 150 kurd villages in the end of the century
ou rabna ma binsa
30 October 2011, 22:09
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All the more reason to keep Turkey out of the EU forever. Turks are killers, that is all they know.
31 October 2011, 14:16
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kurdish nazis pkk supportes always cry even they attacked to in nocent people.watch the issue from youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYs0ShwDdig
31 October 2011, 14:46
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Armenians are easy nationalists.Even if it is not related with them they comment about Turkey and Turkish people. If they want to face with the pain in their ass of WW1 they had to accept that they collabrated with Russians and killed innocent Turkish villagers.They betrayed their land neighbours.Than Turks expelled them. Maybe they have to ask for their losses to their kurdish friends as they learned kurdish people are living in Van region by the Van earthquake.If these diaspora kids are real nationalist they have to work as a volunteer in Armenia,one of the poorest country on world.Armenian women make prostitution in Turkey to fed their kids, so called armenian nationalist bark from USA as it is usual.
