Turkish military police remove statue of PKK militant On Aug. 19, fighting broke out in Lice, Diyarbakir between the Turkish gendarmerie and Kurdish protesters. The latter were trying to block the removal of a statue of a Kurdish fighter at the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) cemetery. When asked about the fighting, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said it was an attempt to derail the government’s peace process with the Kurdish militants. “What [happened] today was necessary. We can’t tolerate such incidents. As one in charge of the peace process, I can say that we see this as direct provocation,” he said, stressing that the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democracy Party (HDP) agrees with the government that the statue’s placement was a provocation. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2014/08/turkey-diyarbakir-lice-pkk-statue.html#ixzz3B1Cbcxi0
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:46:44 +0000
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