Kurdish Protests Roil Turkey as Jihadists Fight in Kobani
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A curfew was in force for a second night across much of southeast Turkey, after deadly clashes sparked by Kurdish protests against the advance of Islamic State militants in neighboring Syria.
The curfew in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in Turkey, will be lifted during the daytime today and enter force again at 6 p.m., the city governor’s office said, according to the official Anadolu agency. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at least 19 people were killed in the violence that spread across the region the previous night, and Hurriyet newspaper put the death toll at 22.