Saturday, December 31, 2011

Turkey - Kurdish anger over airstrike turns to violence in the village of Gulyazi

Published on Dec 31, 2011 by
http://www.euronews.net/ A local government official in Turkey was attacked by an angry mob as he visited a village close to where 35 Kurdish civilians were accidentally killed by a Turkish airstrike.

The victims were mistaken for PKK militants but turned out to have been cigarette smugglers.

The official was set on by an outraged crowd in the village of Gulyazi. The mob chanted anti-government slogans and called the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a murderer.

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