Two dead in Turkey's southeast as Islamists, Kurds clash
Two people died and three others were wounded on Saturday in clashes between Islamists and Kurdish youths in Turkey's southeastern town of Cizre, the government said.
Security sources said clashes erupted after midnight between members of the Islamist Free Cause Party (Huda-Par) and youth groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The two groups are historically fierce rivals. Huda-Par draws support from sympathisers of Turkey's Hezbollah terrorists group which fought the PKK in the 1990s.
Tensions were still high in the town bordering Syria after the clashes, which the Turkish police had difficulty in containing, the security sources said.
