Kurd Separatists Hold Protests; 4 Die
Kurdish separatists held violent protests in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands on Tuesday, and four people were killed and 28 wounded in attacks in Turkey.
It was the fourth straight day of deadly confrontation between the Kurdish guerrillas and security forces in southeastern Turkey. More than 50 people have been killed in the recent violence.
Most of Turkey’s 15 million Kurds live in the region, and it is the center of the rebels’ struggle for an independent state.
In Istanbul, an army major and another man were killed when gunmen fired on a bus of National Intelligence Agency employees, the Anatolia news agency reported. Seven people were wounded.
Dev Sol, a leftist underground group that works with the Kurdish guerrillas, claimed responsibility. “We will break the hands that harm the Kurdish nation,” a caller told newspapers in Istanbul.
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