Istanbul protesters clash with police during a solidarity march for the mostly Kurdish southeast, where at least nine people are killed in the latest outbreak of insurgent violence. Pavithra George reports.
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+++ RESENDING EDIT TO CORRECTLY DESCRIBE THE UNREST IN ISTANBUL AS A PROTEST, AND NOT AS THE SPREADING OF PKK-RELATED VIOLENCE +++ +++ PLEASE MAKE NO FURTHER USE OF THE OLDER VERSION OF THIS EDIT +++ Riot police in Istanbul charge at a crowd of about 200 protesters who had wanted to march in solidarity with residents of Cizre. That's the mostly Kurdish town where several were killed during earlier clashes, with tens of thousands there attending funerals for the victims. At least nine people were killed and several wounded in the latest outbreak of violence across Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at small groups of angry residents in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the region. Protesters here want an end to a curfew put in place in the city's central historic Sur district after clashes that left seven police officers wounded. Further east in Sirnak province, near the Iraq border, Kurdish militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, killed two policeman in a car bomb attack, before escaping to this mountainous region. Turkish forces backed up by helicopters and commandoes shelled the area, killing six PKK militants. Hundreds of militants and more than 100 police and soldiers have died since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012.