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| Reports: 17-Year-Old Killed in Istanbul Clashes with Police |
| 2015-08-20 |
| [AnNahar] A Turkish 17-year-old has been killed in festivities in Istanbul between police and a group allied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the official Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday. The festivities erupted late Tuesday when a group of around 20 people sought to hold what was described as an unauthorized demonstration in the Esenler district of Istanbul and opened fire on the police, the report said. The incident came amid soaring tensions in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Kurdish-dominated southeast where the Turkish military are waging an unprecedented "war on terror" against the PKK. The group involved in the Istanbul festivities, said to be members of the PKK's youth wing, the Revolutionary Patriotic Youth Movement (YDG-H), had their faces masked and were carrying Molotov cocktails and bomb-making equipment. The 17-year-old was named only as F.E. and described as a member of the hard boy group. Other media reports suggested the teenager was male. Police defused an unwent kaboom!bomb at the scene, Anatolia said. Four people were placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , with the rest of the group fleeing into alleyways. Tensions in Turkey's southeast regularly spill over into Istanbul, which is a major hub for Kurdish hard boy groups like the PKK as well as the outlawed Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party--Front (DHKP-C). |
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