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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey: Boy in critical condition after Kurds, police clash |
| 2010-09-11 |
| [Jerusalem Post] Turkish media reported Friday that a 13-year-old boy was in critical condition with a gunshot wound after Kurdish activists fought police in several towns in eastern Turkey. Street clashes broke out on Wednesday and Thursday after authorities reported the deaths of nine Kurdish rebels in combat with the Turkish military earlier in the week. Police used tear gas and water cannons to battle stone-throwing protesters. DHA and CNN-Turk television say a boy was shot in the head in the town of Keklikpinar in Hakkari province. It was not clear who fired the shot. The violence comes ahead of a referendum Sunday on constitutional changes that the government says will make Turkey more democratic. Many Kurdish politicians plan to boycott the vote because the changes do not recognize the ethnic Kurdish identity. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Ilyasova sounds like a Russian married woman's family name. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-09-11 01:06 |
| #1 The Turks must be desparate to sweep this under the rug (ahem) as they're currently hosting the World Basketball championships. By the way anyone know if the name "Ilyasova" is Kurdish, or something else? He's a very good young player on Turkey - plays with the Milwaukee Bucks too. But his name sounds Russian. And his look is a little different and he was the only guy on the Turkish team not singing the national anthem. That doesn't mean anything necessarily, but...I started to wonder - maybe this guy is different ethnically. P.S. Go Team USA |
| Posted by: DJ Curtis C 2010-09-11 01:01 |