Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Kobane protests in Turkey leave 19 dead

19 people have been killed in clashes in Turkey between kurdish protesters and police.

The country's Kurdish minority is angered by Turkey's inaction over the fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamic State militants in the border town of Kobane.

Turkey has tanks and armed forces just a few hundred metres from the unrest but has so far been reluctant to intervene...

Journalist Laura Wells is following events from Istanbul...

IN: They started...
OUT:...rubber bullets
DUR: 24 secs


IN: After these..
OUT: ...the city
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