2 killed in attack, rioting in southeast Turkey

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ANKARA, Turkey — Officials say armed attackers in southeast Turkey have killed a director of an aid organization linked to a Kurdish Islamist party, triggering rioting that led to the death of another person.

The governor’s office says a policeman and two journalists were injured in Tuesday’s incident in the city of Diyarbakir.

The motive for the attack was not known. It comes two days after a pro-Kurdish party made a strong showing in Turkey’s parliamentary election.

Relations between the supporters of the two Kurdish groups — the Islamist Huda Par and the People’s Democratic Party — are tense.

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[KoKo]

1. Kurds won some kind of majority ....as near as I could read.

Doesn't sit well with others who never wanted the Kurds to have any voice. Not surprising. Have to see where it goes...but, thought it was a shocker, in a way, that the election went the way it did.

More will be revealed, down the road, about that election and its ramifications...I guess. Of all the factions...the Kurds seem to be gaining power.

Just an Anecdote:

I read an Agatha Christie book about Syria many years ago. She admired the the Kurdish Women she encountered as very independent and totally entertaining in the way they presented themselves in contrast to the Arab and Egyptian Women who were much more cloistered and reticent to express their opinions in their dress and speech that she had encountered and worked with in her ME travels on her own and with her archaeologist husband in his work..

Read an article in the UK "Independent" this a.m. about how many Kurdish Women have taken up arms and are fighting in Battle against ISIS claiming that "Their Men Left Them" and they took the situation, they were left to deal, with into their own hands to protect themselves and their living situations. I can't remember the name of the particular Agatha Christie book about the Kurds, at this moment, but her books about her time in the ME are interesting given the Early 20th Century in which she lived, wrote about and her views at that time (which might not be very acceptable these days in our PC Culture)...but, had interesting insight for that time she lived in which might give clues to today's ME we are dealing with in our "Endless Wars."