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ANKARA, Sept 5 (AFP) - 8h55 - A total of 144
people were injured in street clashes in
northwestern Turkey late Sunday between locals and
Kurdish activists returning from a banned
demonstration in favour of jailed Kurdish rebel
leader Abdullah Ocalan, a local official said.
The unrest broke out in the town of Bozuhoyuk, in
Bilecik province, when residents attacked buses
carrying Kurdish activists returning home after
being prevented from holding a rally in nearby
Gemlik against Ocalan's prison conditions, Bilecik
governor Musa Colak said.
Colak said the Bozuhoyuk residents had been provoked
by Kurdish activists who were waving flags made of
the Kurdish colours of yellow, red and green, and
were holding up posters of Ocalan, the head of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Police and paramilitary gendarmerie reinforcements
were called in to placate the angry mob.
There were 17 police officers, seven troops and a
doctor among the injured, Colak said.
AFP
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