Death toll rises to 6 in SE Turkey clashes
Six people have been killed so far in days of clashes between Kurdish protesters and police in Diyarbakir, the main town of Turkey’s troubled southeast, its mayor said on Friday. An eight-year-old child died overnight in hospital. A man and a child were shot dead on Wednesday and a second man was crushed under a police armored car. It was not immediately clear when or how the other two people died. “Six people have died, 200 people are wounded,” Mayor Osman Baydemir told a news conference amid the worst social unrest in the impoverished region in decades. Full Story