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ANKARA, Turkey - A group of nationalist Turks
attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with stones on Sunday, following
violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and
police in Istanbul, reports said.
On their return, angry Turkish nationalists stopped
the convoy at a makeshift roadblock, set car tires
on fire and smashed the windows of the buses with
stones, video showed. Several demonstrators were
injured, according to news reports.
Ocalan‘s Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers
Party, or PKK, announced a unilateral cease-fire on
Aug. 19 after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
vowed to improve economic conditions in
predominantly Kurdish areas and offer greater
cultural freedoms for Kurds.
A senior rebel commander, Murat Karayilan, said he
would not be "held responsible" if violence
increased after the one-month cease-fire expired on
Sept. 20, pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper
reported
Agencies
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