At least 19 people were reported killed in riots across Turkey, the deadliest street unrest in years, after the Kurdish minority rose up in fury at the government's refusal to protect a besieged Syrian town from Islamic State.
Street
battles raged between Kurdish protesters and police across Turkey's
mainly Kurdish southeast, as the fallout from war in Syria and Iraq
threatened to unravel the NATO member's own delicate peace process.
There were also clashes in the commercial hub Istanbul and capital
Ankara.
Across the frontier,
U.S.-led air strikes appeared to have pushed Islamic State fighters back
to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which the
militants have been poised to capture this week after a three-week
siege.
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