22 killed in protests against ISIL siege of Kurdish town

 22 people were killed and dozens injured across Turkey on Tuesday and Wednesday as sympathizers of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) resorted to violent demonstrations in protest of the Turkish government's failure to help prevent the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from falling to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Due to the widespread violent protests in the mainly Kurdish Southeast of the country and in cities such as İstanbul and İzmir, a curfew was imposed late on Tuesday in six provinces when the protests tuned violent. Protesters clashed not only with the police; rival groups were also in deadly confrontations in cities such as Diyarbakır and Batman.

Ten people in Diyarbakır, five in Mardin, three in Siirt, one in Van, Batman and Adana provinces were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday in the clashes between supporters of the PKK and the Free Cause Party (Hüda-Par), a pro-Kurdish/radical Islamist party. Hüda-Par is ideologically aligned with ISIL, alongside which some young Kurds have been reportedly fighting in Syria.

Another protester, Hakan Bursur, 22, died during protests in Varto, Muş province, when a tear gas canister hit him on the head. Among the casualties, two others were also reportedly killed by tear gas canisters fired by the police.

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