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Tension in Turkey amid anger over airstrikes on Kurds and mass arrests

2015-07-26 1 Dailymotion

Clashes have broken out in Turkey over the airstrikes on Kurds and the arrest of hundreds of people across the country.<br /><br /> Water cannon was used to break up demonstrators who gathered for the funeral of a woman killed on Friday.<br /><br /> The suspected member of the outlawed extreme-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party Front was shot during a police raid.<br /><br /> Authorities say the raids targeted suspected ISIL supporters, the PKK and the extreme-left group, with about 300 people arrested. <br /><br /> In Ankara, clashes broke out after people demonstrated against the suicide bomb attack by ISIL that killed 32 people in a mainly Kurdish town near the border with Syria. <br /><br /> They also demonstrated against the military action being taken by the government. <br /><br /> Many Kurds have blamed the government for the attack, saying it has refused to confront ISIL. Ankara denies the claims.<br /><br /> Some groups attempted to organise what they called a peace march in Istanbul on Sunday, but officials refused to give permission

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