Turkey: Clashes in Southeast, Bombing in Istanbul

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | April 4th, 2006 | Trackback

A week of clashes between security forces and sympathizers of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey caused several deaths in Diyarbakir, a main transit point to the Turkey-Iraq border. The violence could spill over to other provinces in the southeast. The U.S. State Department restricts the travel of its personnel in these areas, and advises Americans to avoid them. In Istanbul, PKK supporters attacked a city bus with Molotov cocktails, killing three people. The incidents were prompted by Kurdish frustration over high unemployment, and represent the worst civil unrest in Turkey in about twenty years.

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