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Turkey pro-Kurdish HDP party HQ attacked in Ankara | |
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A crowd has attacked the headquarters of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP party, amid rising violence between Turkish forces and the militant Kurdish PKK group. | |
Pictures on social media appeared to show the building in the capital, Ankara, on fire. | |
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has appealed for calm. | |
Earlier, Turkish ground forces crossed into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants for the first time since a ceasefire with the PKK two years ago. | |
Nationalists staged rallies across Turkey on Tuesday, hours after 14 police officers were killed in a suspected PKK bomb attack on a minibus in the east of the country. | |
The bombing came a day after another militant attack on the Turkish military killed 16 soldiers. | |
HDP lawmaker Garo Paylan told Reuters news agency that hundreds of protesters had attacked the building in Ankara. | |
"Police are just watching, he said. "What's being broken there is our hope of living together." |