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Kurdistan-Turkey, Sep 6 DIHA - One Kurd was
killed and two others were wounded when Turkish
soldiers opened fire at Kurdish demonstrators in the
city of Siirt in Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey)
today. Kurds in Siirt took to the streets to protest
the lynching of Kurdish demonstrators in the city of
Bozuyuk in western Turkey.
"The people were massed outside People's Library. A
military jeep showed up and was stoned by the
demonstrators. The jeep gathered speed and fled.
Just before the jeep was going to make a turn into
an alley, an officer in the jeep opened fire at the
demonstrators. Abdullah Aydan and two others fell
down. The jeep disappeared", a witness of the
incident told the Kurdish news agency DIHA on
condition of anonymity.
Abdullah Aydan was hit in the head by one of the
bullets fired by the Turkish officer in the jeep.
Aydan was rushed to Siirt State Hospital for initial
treatment and after that to Batman Recovery Hospital
and then to the Dicle University Hospital in Amed (Diyarbakir)
where he lost his life.
The chairman of the 'Botan Culture and Art Center',
Abdullah Görgen, and an unnamed local shop owner
were also injured and they were taken to Siirt State
Hospital for surgery.
After the incident, Turkish gendarmerie units raided
the Kurdish party DEHAP's Province Office in Siirt
and arrested 40 people inside.
The armed attack against the Kurdish demonstrators
provoked the local citizens and clashes between
Kurds and Turkish military were reported from
several areas in the city. Sporadic clashes are
continuing all over the city, according to
journalists from DIHA.
www.dozame.org
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Sept 7 (AFP) - 9h47 - A
Kurdish man died in hospital early Wednesday from a
shotgun injury sustained during a demonstration in
southeastern Turkey, local officials said.
Nine other people, one of them a police officer,
were injured, they said.
Abdullah Aydan, in his 30s, was hit in the head by a
bullet, apparently when the police fired warning
shots to disperse a crowd of some 500 people during
a demonstration on Tuesday in favor of jailed
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in the city of
Siirt.
Nine other people, including a police officer, were
injured in the clashes, which saw the demonstrators
hurl stones at government buildings as well as the
security forces, the officials said.
This prompted the police to respond with tear gas
and fire what the officials described as warning
shots in the air.
Ocalan, the head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
blacklisted as a terrorist group by Ankara as well
as the European Union and the United States, is
serving a life sentence for treason and separatism
in the prison island of Imrali in northwestern
Turkey.
The demonstration in Siirt, which is near the main
southeastern city of Diyarbakir, followed unrest
which left almost 200 people injured in other parts
of Turkey on Sunday and Monday.
Kurdish protestors clashed with Turkish nationalists
and the police in several towns following the
banning of a planned massive pro-Ocalan
demonstration.
The PKK has fought the Ankara government since 1984
when it took up arms for self-rule in Turkey's
predominantly Kurdish southeast. The conflict has
claimed some 37,000 lives.
AFP
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