Protesters clash with police on anniversary of PKK leader's capture
A large group of protesters attacked the security forces with Molotov cocktails and handmade bombs while they were protesting the 15th anniversary of capture of jailed terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Öcalan was captured in Kenya on Feb. 15, 1999, while traveling from the Greek Embassy to the Nairobi International Airport, in an operation carried out by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT). He was sentenced to death that same year, but his sentence was suspended and later commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty for peacetime offenses was abolished in Turkey in August 2002.
The crowd consisting of many pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) officials, including BDP co-chairperson Gültan Kışanak, marched in Bağlar district. After some speeches made by the people from the crowd, some of the protesters whose face were masked, attacked police officers with stones, Molotov cocktails, handmade bombs and fireworks. The police responded the attack with tear gas and water cannon. The clash lasted for about an hour and police officers from other units were dispatched to the scene.
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