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KurdistanObserver.com
Kurdish Demonstrators Clash With Police In Istanbul
ISTANBUL, Jan 22, 2006 (AFP) Protesters
calling for the release of jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan
clashed with police Sunday in a working-class district of Istanbul, an AFP
photographer reported.
About 100 demonstrators, shouting slogans in support of the jailed leader of
the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), threw stones at an equivalent number of
riot police who had come to disperse the protest.
The police fired tear gas grenades and plastic bullets against the
protesters, but no one was hurt in the melee in Dolapdere, located in Istanbul's
western side.
On the eastern bank of the Bosphorus Strait, in Umraniye district, pro-PKK
demonstrators torched a city bus with a petrol bomb, slightly injuring its
driver, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Last year, Ankara introduced restrictions on Ocalan's meetings with his
lawyers, whom it accused of carrying orders from the rebel leader to his
militants who have recently stepped up their armed campaign.
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