Street clashes in Turkey after Kurdish party banned
14 Dec 2009Clashes have erupted in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district as around 200 Kurds protesting at the closure of a leading Kurdish party clashed with Turkish nationalists and police. It was the third straight day of street violence after the constitutional court outlawed Turkey’s main Kurdish party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP), for links with Kurdish rebels who have led a 25-year insurgency in the southeast. Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish party has 21 MPs, two of whom have been banned from politics for five years. Read more here
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