Tensions have escalated in the town of Cizre since Friday night when the Sunni Muslim Huda-Par group attacked tents belonging to rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a security source told Agence-France Presse.
The two deaths were attributed by Dogan news agency to be the father of a leader of the Islamist party and a 19-year old Kurdish youth.
Huda-Par is known to be the political extension of Turkish Hezbollah and has long been hostile to the PKK -- which has fought Turkish security forces in a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish self-rule.
The clashes in Cizre were continuing sporadically, the source said.
Relations between the two groups have been tense since October, when Kurds - angered at what they said was Turkish impediment to efforts to defend the Syrian town of Kobane - clashed with police and the Islamist group members across Turkey. More than 30 people were killed in the rioting.
The trouble has raised fears that the standoff over Kobane could derail talks between the Turkish government and the PKK for a peaceful settlement.
Last Update: Saturday, 27 December 2014 KSA 16:43 - GMT 13:43
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At least two dead as Turkey's Hizbullah, PKK engage in street battles ...
ReplyDeleteThe outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s Hizbullah, whose members are mostly Kurdish Islamists, have engaged in fresh street battles in a southeastern province near Turkey's border with Syria, killing at least two, more than two months after the clashes that led to the deaths of 36 people.
Members of the Free Cause Party (Hüda Par), an affiliate of Hizbullah, confronted the YDG-H, the youth branch of the PKK, at 03.00 a.m. on Dec. 27 in the southeastern province of Şırnak's Cizre district, according to the Doğan News Agency. The confrontation turned into gunfights in several neighborhoods early in the morning........................http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/at-least-two-dead-as-turkeys-hizbullah-pkk-engage-in-street-battles.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76165&NewsCatID=341
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