[Print]
[Close]
ANKARA, TURKEY: Prime minister tries to calm Kurdish area
Tuesday, Nov. 22 2005
Turkey's prime minister went to the overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast and urged
calm Monday after weeks of rioting. He promised that his government would
investigate charges that security forces, and not Kurdish guerrillas, were
behind a recent fatal bombing.
Allegations that undercover police carried out the bombing have raised
accusations of state-backed summary executions and sparked street clashes in
the southeast and then in Kurdish neighborhoods of Istanbul. Four people have
died in the violence.
"Hate will not bring anything to us," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a crowd in
Semdinli, a town in far southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border, where the
violence began.
FROM NEWS SERVICES
_____________________________________________________________________
If you enjoy reading about interesting news, you might like the 3 O'Clock Stir from
STLtoday.com. Sign up and you'll receive an email with unique stories of the day,
every Monday-Friday, at no charge.
Sign up at
http://newsletters.stltoday.com
_____________________________________________________________________