The police opened fire on Kurdish protesters and killed two people in Turkey’s Hakkari Province in the southeast.  

On Friday, the local residents placed flowers on the destroyed graves of eight Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)  militants, and made statements criticizing the Turkish authorities, the Kurdish Firat news agency reports. 

Subsequently, the police, which had gathered around the demonstrators, started using water cannons and tear gas against the protesters, and the latter began to hit police with stones.    

During the clashes the police also opened fire on the demonstrators and, as a result, a 35- and a 34-year-old man was killed.