Protests against Turkish plans to build a wall along the Syrian border have erupted into violent clashes with police.<br /><br />In the border towns of Nusaybin and Cizre, demonstrators set off firecrackers and threw Molotov cocktails.<br /><br />Riot police deployed tear gas and fired live ammunition to disperse the crowds.<br /><br />The violence follows a mass rally by Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party against the planned partition. Some 5,000 people attended.<br /><br />The Turkish government says the wall is being built to improve security and reduce smuggling.<br /><br />Critics of the plan, however, are angry at what they see as a divisive measure intended to separate Kurds in Turkey from those in Syria. Many Kurdish families in the area have relatives on both sides of the border.
