Turkey's state-run news agency says hundreds of Kurds have clashed with police in eastern Turkey, hurling stones, firebombs and fireworks. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
Kurdish youths have been staging violent streets protests over the past few weeks to denounce new prison conditions for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The protests intensified after Turkey's supreme court began its deliberations this week on a case to shut down the country's pro-Kurdish party on charges of links to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK.
The Anatolia news agency says police in the city of Van, near the border with Iran, retaliated with pepper gas.
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