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RT Reporter Tear Gassed by Turkish Police During Kurd Protests

© AFP 2023 / OZAN KOSEProtesters run for cover from tear gas fired by Turkish riot police during a demonstration on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul after a top Kurdish lawyer was killed in Diyarbakir on November 28, 2015
Protesters run for cover from tear gas fired by Turkish riot police during a demonstration on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul after a top Kurdish lawyer was killed in Diyarbakir on November 28, 2015 - Sputnik International
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According to media reports, an RT broadcaster reporter fell victim to a tear gas attack by Turkish police during Kurd protests.

People react as smoke billows from burning pallets set on fire during clashes between Turkish riot policemen and Kurdish protesters in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on November 1, 2015 after first results of the Turkish general election showed a clear victory to the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at Kurds who were protesting after the election appeared to deliver a clear victory to AKP, an AFP photographer said. Latest results say the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) won slightly over 10 percent of the vote, just enough to scrape into parliament. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) An RT broadcaster reporter fell victim to a tear gas attack by Turkish police during Kurd protests against the killing of a prominent Kurdish lawyer in the country's southeastern Diyarbakir province, media reported Monday.

"As soon as we arrived here there was a very tense situation and there were security forces out in full force in the streets with guns and we heard gunshots," RT correspondent William Whiteman said as quoted by the TV channel.

He added that his crew barely escaped the tear gas attack.

People took to the streets of Diyarbakir city on Saturday, several hours after Tahir Elci, a bar association president in the Diyarbakir province and campaigner for Kurdish rights, was killed in a shooting that broke out when he was making a press statement.

Violence in Turkey escalated in July, when the Turkish government launched a military campaign against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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