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| Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP party offices 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. | 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 from the scene appeared to show the HDP building in the capital, Ankara, on fire. | |
| Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has appealed for calm. | 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. | 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. |
| Turkish warplanes also launched a wave of air strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq. | |
| 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. | 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. | The bombing came a day after another militant attack on the Turkish military killed 16 soldiers. |
| Newspaper attacked | |
| HDP lawmaker Garo Paylan told Reuters news agency that hundreds of protesters had attacked the building in Ankara. | 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." | "Police are just watching, he said. "What's being broken there is our hope of living together." |
| On Sunday, pro-government protesters stormed the Istanbul offices of the Hurriyet newspaper, accusing it of misquoting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a TV interview. | |
| Another crowd protested outside Hurriyet again on Tuesday evening. | |
| Mr Davutoglu took to Twitter to denounce the attacks. | |
| "It is unacceptable to damage media institutions, political party buildings and the property of our civilian citizens," he said. | |
| "I invite all my citizens with hearts full of love for the country to calm, embrace one another, and to have confidence in the state." | |
| HDP leaders have accused Mr Davutoglu's governing AK Party (AKP) of stoking unrest to drum up nationalist support ahead of elections on 1 November. | |
| The HDP entered parliament for the first time in June elections and its 14% share of the vote deprived the AKP of a parliamentary majority. | |
| The surge in violence follows the collapse of a ceasefire in July between the Turkish army and the PKK. | |
| The truce, which began in 2013, unravelled after a suicide bombing by suspected Islamic State militants near the border with Syria. The attack led to mutual recriminations between Kurdish groups and Turkey. |