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Ankara: Pro-Kurdish protesters angered by the Turkish government`s lack of action against jihadists in Syria clashed for the third night running with police as the death toll from the violence rose to 22, officials said Thursday.
To the fury of Turkey`s Kurds, Ankara has not intervened militarily against Islamic State (IS) jihadists trying to take the mainly Kurdish Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border.
Defying a curfew imposed by the army, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in cities of mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey and were dispersed by police using water cannon and tear gas, television said.
Meanwhile, clashes also took place in several districts of Istanbul with demonstrators throwing stones and anti-riot police responding with tear gas, an AFP correspondent said. Violent protests were also reported in Ankara and the southern city of Mersin.
Meanwhile the death toll from the violence rose to 22 after two bodies were found when workers cleared up the damage from Tuesday night`s unrest in the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Mardin.
The clashes Wednesday night appeared less ferocious than the bloody violence on Tuesday and all of the fatalities appear so far to have been caused on Tuesday.
