Terdapat pertempuran antara Kurd dan pasukan keselamatan Turki sebagai sambutan atas kejayaan tentera Kurdi di negara jiran Syria bertukar masam. Kejatuhan strategik Syria sempadan bandar Ras al-Ain dengan militan Kurdish membawa beratus-ratus Kurd ke jalan-raya di wilayah tenggara Turki daripada Cizre.
Masalah diikuti dengan sewajarnya. Polis bertindak balas dengan meriam air sebagai penunjuk perasaan melontar kereta perisai dengan mercun dan bom petrol. Kerajaan di Ankara takut bahawa jika wilayah autonomi Kurdis ditubuhkan di Syria, ia boleh menggalakkan Kurd di Turki untuk meningkatkan lagi dalam usaha mereka untuk mendapatkan autonomi.
Pemimpin Kurdis telah menuduh kerajaan mengheret kakinya ke atas langkah-langkah ke arah keamanan, tetapi Ankara kata Kurd mesti menyimpan pihak mereka yang sewajarnya dan menarik diri pejuang-pejuang di utara Iraq.
There have been clashes between Kurds and Turkish security forces as celebrations over Kurdish military success in neighbouring Syria turned sour. The fall of the strategic Syrian border town Ras al-Ain to Kurdish militants brought hundreds of elated Kurds onto the streets in Turkey's southeastern province of Cizre.
Trouble duly followed. Police responded with water cannon as protesters pelted armoured vehicles with firecrackers and petrol bombs.
The government in Ankara is afraid that if an autonomous Kurdish region is established in Syria, it could encourage Kurds in Turkey to push further in their bid for autonomy.
Kurdish leaders have accused the government of dragging its feet over steps towards peace, but Ankara says the Kurds must keep their side of the bargain and withdraw fighters in northern Iraq.
