Thousands of Turks and Kurds on Jan. 25 marched to protest at the
assassination of Diyarbakir Police Chief Gaffar Okkan in an
unprecedented outpouring of sympathy by Kurds for a Turkish police
officer. Some 10,000 people chanted slogans condemning the assassination
of Okkan and five other police officers, shot dead in an ambush on Jan.
24. Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack,
suspicion fell on the Islamic Kurdish militant group Hizbollah. (Kurdish
civilians have been caught in a 16-year war between Turkish forces and
PKK).
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