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One soldier was killed and another was injured in an ambush set by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants near the Iranian border in the eastern province of Van late on Aug. 20.

One person was killed and two were wounded in clashes that erupted between protesters and security forces during an operation to remove a statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, one of the founders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 19.

More than a dozen university students protesting the recent clashes in Lice have been detained in the western province of Kocaeli June 9.

Several students from Kocaeli University held protests at the Umuttepe campus.

Some of the students broke windows and threw chairs, which prevented a scheduled exam.
Police intervened and 17 students have been detained.

Clashes erupted between the crowd and police June 8 during the funeral procession of one of the two Kurdish demonstrators killed by security forces during a raid on a roadblock in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, showing the dramatic escalation of tension in Turkey’s southeastern provinces.

At least two protesters died June 7 from gunshot wounds sustained during intense clashes with soldiers in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, where demonstrations against the construction of a gendarmerie posts have been continuing for nearly two weeks.

Turkey’s main opposition leader has asked how the government can take an illegal organization as a counterpart when asked about children allegedly abducted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).