Clashes between rival Kurds in Turkey turn deadly

Unknown assailants have shot dead the head of an aid organisation linked to a right-wing Kurdish party in Turkey, triggering clashes between rival Kurdish groups that left several others dead.

Security sources confirmed that Aytac Baran, from the Yeni Ihya Der aid group, was killed as he left his office in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday.

Subsequent clashes saw up to three people killed and four injured, adding to tensions in the country's largest Kurdish-populated city.

Hospital sources told the AFP news agency that three of those wounded were journalists.

The violence came two days after the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) cleared the 10 percent threshold to enter parliament as a party for the first time.

Government resigns

After his ruling party lost its parliamentary majority in a national vote, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said on Tuesday he had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's government to allow for the formation of a new government

Erdogan is now expected to give Davutoglu the difficult task of forming a coalition government.

Opposition parties have vowed to resist any pact with the ruling party. They are likely to demand limitations on Erdogan's role in government, complicating any coalition talks.

Tuesday's resignation is part of the political custom and the government will stay in office until a new one is set up.
Source: Agencies
  [aljazeera.com]
9/6/15
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• Έκρυθμη είναι η κατάσταση στην ΝΑ καθώς η νίκη του φιλοκουρδικού κόμματος HDP το βράδυ της Κυριακής δεν φαίνεται να έφερε και την ειρήνη στους δρόμους του Ντιγιάρμπακιρ όπου έχουν ξεσπάσει βίαια επεισόδια μετά τη δολοφονική επίθεση σε βάρος Κούρδου ισλαμιστή ενώ ο αριθμός των νεκρών έχει φτάσει τους τρεις...