Violent clashes took place during the weekend between supporters of the PKK and the security forces in the town near Turkey's border with Iraq and Syria.
The clashes have taken place on the sidelines of protest calling for the release of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, 16 years to the day after his arrest.
The violence highlighted the fragility of the peace process begun two years ago between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers Party who led an uprising nearly thirty years in the country. A process that began with a cease-fire of the PKK and its withdrawal from certain areas for a pullback to northern Iraq where it has bases.
This process comes as Kurdish forces, peshermergas retook the city of Kobané on the other side of the border in Syria to the Organization Islamic State with the support of air strikes by the international coalition.
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