Renewed Kurdish conflict angers Turks, overshadows election


People gather outside of a damaged building after clashes between Turkish security forces and members of YDG-H in Silvan Clinging to his brother’s coffin, draped in the red Turkish flag, Lieutenant Colonel Mehmet Alkan’s outburst was a rare public show of defiance from a serving officer as Turkish jets bombard Kurdish militants.

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