Turkish Police Break Up Kurdish Rally


	Turkish Police Break Up Kurdish Rally

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11-18-2007 4:00 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/166f8b16-bb4d-4a05-9fb9-759128fb69c5/1B76D56A-52A8-4E34-A8AC-AA1AB512CC18/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24983A57-9452-4A88-805A-1D5F2075BBC5.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24983A57-9452-4A88-805A-1D5F2075BBC5.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24983A57-9452-4A88-805A-1D5F2075BBC5.htm"><SPAN class="DetaildSuammary" id="Htmlphcontrol1"><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Ten people have been arrested as Turkish police used warning shots and tear gas to break up a rally by a Kurdish party that authorities are trying to ban.</SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Police broke up demonstrators chanting slogans in favour of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey's <I>NTV</I> news channel reported.</SPAN></P></DIV><TABLE border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><INPUT type="submit" id="Htmlphcontrol1_btnCheckLength" value="Remove Format" name="Htmlphcontrol1:btnCheckLength" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD><TD><SPAN id="Htmlphcontrol1_lblError"></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN>
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<P><FONT size="2">As many as 2,000 demonstrators loyal to Ocalan rallied in the city of <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Van on Saturday.</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> </FONT></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The demonstration was organised by the country's main Kurdish political movement, the Democratic Society Party (DTP) – a group accused by <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Ankara</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> of colluding with PKK fighters.</SPAN></P></DIV><TABLE border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><INPUT type="submit" id="Htmlphcontrol2_btnCheckLength" value="Remove Format" name="Htmlphcontrol2:btnCheckLength" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24983A57-9452-4A88-805A-1D5F2075BBC5.htm">The DTP, which holds 20 seats in Turkey's 550-member parliament, rejects charges of links to the PKK.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1B76D56A-52A8-4E34-A8AC-AA1AB512CC18/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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