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Ten thousand gather in Kurdish area to
call for peace
14.11.2005
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, Nov 13 (AFP) - More than 10,000
people gathered Sunday in the southeastern Turkish
city of Diyarbakir to call for a peaceful solution
to the region's Kurdish rebellion.
The "democracy and peace" demonstration, organised
by local non-governmental groups and pro-Kurdish
independence parties, took place amid tight security
in the predominantly Kurdish city.
The area around 600 kilometres (375 miles) further
east, near Turkey's borders with Iran and Iraq,
remained tense on Sunday following a bomb blast and
clashes in recent days that has left two dead and
dozens injured.
Protestors in Diyarbakir chanted slogans for the
outlawed pro-independence Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
and its leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed for life by a
Turkish court in 1999.
Southeastern Turkey has been the scene of a bloody
Kurdish rebellion for self-rule which has claimed
around 37,000 lives since 1984.
Unrest has increased considerably this year after
the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, called off
a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.
AFP
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