Still İ didn`t here much diskussion about the kurdish protests, most people don`t even recognize, what`s going on, even if things are happening directly in the city district, they;re living in. International press is mentioning. But only prompting the ruoghest information, hardly trying any analysis. some want to see a kind of social protest, but at least in İstanbul you can state: it seemed to be a kurdish protest, not one of other socially marginalized groups. read youself at sites of new york times, were İ`ve quoted from, for example, or if you know german at jungle world.

… A few hundred Kurdish protesters clashed with the riot police in central Istanbul on Sunday, throwing gasoline bombs and setting fire to a truck. Three people were killed after a gasoline bomb was thrown at a bus, The Associated Press reported, citing police reports.

The civil unrest has been some of Turkey’s worst since the Kurdish party took up arms against the government in 1984.

Security officials said additional troops were being sent to this city of about 100,000 people south of the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir.

Political analysts and diplomats say the violence, the worst in a decade, reflects local anger over high unemployment, poverty and the central government’s refusal to grant more autonomy to the mainly Kurdish region. …

anyway, it`s strange to see, how the story of one day is pressed in one sentence. kurdish sources are not really more interesting. To be honest, İ do not really understand the links to iraque. İt seems they are just necersary to speak about U.S.