When an individual person or a group of people support a terrorist who caused the death of nearly 45 thousands of innocent lives and destruction of hudreds of billions of dollar damage to destroy a democratict country and establish a maxist, lenni
rick murphy
When an individual person or a group of people support a terrorist who
caused the death of nearly 45 thousands of innocent lives and
destruction of hudreds of billions of dollar damage to destroy a
democratict country and establish a maxist, lenninist, dictatorship,
that very person or the group of people are equally guilty of the same
crimes.
Clashes erupt between Kurdish protesters, Turkish police
Sunday, December 6, 2009
DIYARBAKIR – Agence France-Presse
Turkish police on Sunday clashed in the country’s Southeast with
Kurdish demonstrators protesting the prison conditions of jailed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, leader Abdullah Öcalan.
An estimated 15,000 protesters marched in the city of Diyarbakır, but
clashes erupted when demonstrators threw stones and fireworks at anti-
riot police who tried to block the march, an AFP correspondent on the
scene reported.
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd. One
protester and one police officer were wounded, according to local
sources, who also said several people were arrested.
The Anatolia news agency reported that four police were injured in the
clashes.
The demonstration was called by the Democratic Society Party, or DTP,
to support Öcalan's claims of poor treatment at the Imralı island
prison, where he has been serving a life sentence since 1999.
The Justice Ministry published photos on Friday to show that Öcalan's
jail conditions were the same as those of other inmates in high-
security prisons and said they met international standards.
Öcalan, 61, was the sole inmate at the prison on Imralı island until
new prisoners arrived last month, after the Council of Europe's
Committee for the Prevention of Torture, or CPT, criticized Ankara for
violating Öcalan's human rights by keeping him in solitary
confinement.
More demonstrations took place on Saturday in the southeastern town of
Yüksekova where a 19-year-old suffered a serious head injury from a
teargas grenade during clashes with police, and one officer was also
injured, according to local security sources.
The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Ankara and much of the
international community, has been fighting the Turkish military since
1984 in a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.