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AMED (29.03.2006)- In Amed, in which demonstrations are continuening, on Sakarya Street in Baglar district, a child, named as Abdullah Duran, who was 12 years old, was killed.

According to the knowledges; 12 years old boy, named as Abdullah Duran, was killed by a bullet on Sakarya Street.

The funeral of Duran is still being waited in the morgue of State Hospital. Uncle of Duran, Mehmet Salih Gezer defined that, his nephew was shot by the bullet, which was used to the demonstrators, said that the funeral don't given to them.

The attemps of Duran family are continuening for taking the funeral.

For this last death, the killing of persons by bullet in Amed, increased to two.

It was learned that, 22 years old young boy, named as Tarik Atakaya, who was killed in Baglar district in Amed, was an apprentice in a furniture shop and had got no relations with the incidents.

It was learned that the funeral of Atakaya, who was killed by Private Teams, with bullets, is still being waited in the morgue of State Hospital.

By SELCAN HACAOGLU
Associated Press Writer
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ANKARA, Turkey - Riot police fired water cannons and used pepper spray to disperse stone-throwing Kurdish rioters Wednesday in a second day of violence that an official said left at least three people dead and 250 injured in southeastern Turkey.

Gov. Efkan Ala said 2,500 to 3,000 rioters, including many children, participated in the two days of clashes in Diyarbakir after funerals for Kurdish guerrillas killed by Turkish troops last week.

The guerrillas were among 14 killed by soldiers in the province of Mus in a two-day fight that ended Saturday. They belonged to the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been fighting for autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984.

Ala said three Kurds were killed and 250 people were injured, including 130 security forces, and several government offices, private businesses and banks were damaged in the melees — among the worst in decades.

The Turkish army moved combat vehicles to the outskirts of the city, the largest in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, after clashes broke out Tuesday when thousands of protesters rampaged, hurling firebombs at armored police vehicles and smashing windows at a police station.

About 200 rioters took to the streets again on Wednesday, blocking streets with burning tires and hurling stones at riot police. They also smashed the windows of the local businesses and set a truck on fire before they were dispersed by security forces firing into the air and using a water cannon and tear gas.

Paramilitary troops stationed outside the governor's office also quickly repelled a group of stone-throwing protesters.

"Three protesters have unfortunately died," the Diyarbakir governor said. "One of them died in a traffic accident while trying to escape."

Ala did not say how the two other rioters had died, pending autopsy reports, but he added that security forces had detained 200 people.

Turkey's regional governors are state-appointed and are in charge of local security.

Authorities were still assessing damage in the city as municipality workers cleaned the wreckage of burned cars and broken glass littering the streets from the previous night.

"The aim of the perpetrators and rioters of this incidents is to destroy the unity of our country and the environment of safety," Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.

"Our security forces will find and hand over the perpetrators, collaborators, provocateurs and their affiliates to justice and they will be given the punishment they deserved," he added.

Authorities boosted security in Diyarbakir. A long convoy of armored personnel carriers rumbled toward a major military base on the outskirts of the city as authorities called in police reinforcements from nearby cities.

Further west in Adana, some 3,000 Kurdish protesters attending the funeral of another slain guerrilla also clashed with police on Tuesday, prompting the officers to detain several people.

Tensions have been running high in the southeast, where autonomy-seeking Kurdish guerrillas have escalated attacks recently.

The fight for autonomy has killed more than 37,000 people. The Kurdistan Workers Party is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Turkey is under pressure from the European Union, which it wants to join, to grant more rights to its sizable Kurdish population that it does recognize as an official minority. But Ankara has ruled out any dialogue with the Kurdish guerrillas whom it regards as terrorists.

Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan urged Denmark to shut down a Danish-based Kurdish satellite television station, Roj TV, which reportedly encouraged Kurdish rioters during Tuesday's clashes in Diyarbakir.

Turkey accuses Roj TV of being a mouthpiece for the PKK. Danish authorities say they are still investigating, while Roj TV insists it has no links to the rebels.

At least 35 people, including 11 police officers, were injured when Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police in the city of Diyarbakir. The clashes started at funeral ceremonies for 14 Kurdistan Workers Party members, killed in an army operation last weekend. Mourners went on a rampage, damaging 70 offices and businesses and burning down a bank. Police and protesters also clashed during a funeral ceremony in the city of Adana.

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The UN Security Council has given Iran 30 days to clear up suspicions that it wants to become a nuclear power and key members are already discussing further action if Tehran refuses to suspend uranium enrichment and allow more extensive inspections.

After three weeks of intense negotiations, the 15-member council finally agreed on a statement yesterday designed to put Iran on notice that even its closest allies – Russia and China – want answers about its nuclear programme, and quickly.

While the council hopes Iran will comply with demands from the board of the UN nuclear watchdog, foreign ministers from the five permanent council nations - the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France – and Germany are meeting in Berlin today to discuss next steps if Tehran refuses.

France’s UN Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said what the council would do in a month “will depend on Iran, and also the strategy we will discuss – and we will be ready”.

US Ambassador John Bolton said President George Bush’s administration would like Iran to follow Libya and give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons.

“The ball is back in Iran’s court and we’ll be here in 30 days to see what they say,” he said.

Meanwhile, Bolton said, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be exploring with her colleagues at today’s meeting in Berlin how to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.

“The president has been unequivocal that it’s unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and there are a whole range of steps we can take,” Bolton said, without elaborating. “I’m sure that’s what they’ll be discussing, in part, in Berlin.”

Iran’s UN Ambassador Javad Zarif said his government would respond to the Security Council statement, but he warned that “Iran is a country that is allergic to pressure and to threats and intimidation”.

“Iran is committed to non-proliferation and Iran does not want to produce nuclear weapons,” he said, but “Iran insists on its right to have access to nuclear technology for explicitly peaceful purposes. We will not abandon that claim to our legitimate right.”

France, Britain and Germany have been leading negotiations with Iran, but talks collapsed in August after Tehran rejected a package of economic and political incentives offered in return for a permanent end to uranium enrichment, which it had voluntarily suspended in 2004 under a deal with the Europeans.

Its subsequent moves to develop full-blown enrichment capabilities led the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation board to send the Iran file to the Security Council.

The presidential statement approved by the council was described by all council members as a first step to pressure Iran to resolve “outstanding questions” – first and foremost by suspending uranium enrichment, which can be used to make nuclear weapons, and reprocessing. It also calls for Iran to ratify the IAEA’s additional protocol, which allows unannounced inspections.

The Europeans initially proposed a much stronger statement but accepted a milder one to get the support of Russia and China, who oppose sanctions and want the IAEA to remain in the lead on Iran. At their insistence, the Europeans dropped a statement that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction “constitutes a threat to international peace and security” – language that already appears in virtually all UN sanctions resolutions.

Bolton was asked what more the council could do if IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reports that Iran hasn’t complied, given the difficulty in reaching agreement on the presidential statement.

“I’m confident that secretary Rice will be very persuasive and I’m hoping they’ll make a lot of progress,” he said. “She’s determined to do it.”

France’s de La Sabliere, asked whether the presidential statement was a first building block toward sanctions or military action, replied: “We are not talking about military action.”

“We the Europeans want a gradual, incremental and reversible approach,” he said. “This is the first step of the gradual approach. Again, it is reversible. If Iran does not comply, there will be a second step.”

But whether Russia and China would agree to tough action remains to be seen.

Russia’s UN Ambassador Andrey Denisov said Moscow has very strong suspicions about Iran’s nuclear programme – but no evidence – and wants Iran to comply with the IAEA demands.

“What we have done today, that is initial step – initial but very important, very strong and very clear,” he said.

Denisov said the council must move slowly.

“It is like a ladder. If you want to climb up, you must step on the first step, and then the second, and try not to leap,” he said. “That is the case.”

Denisov said one of the most important outcomes of the long and difficult negotiations on the statement was the council’s unity – and “I am convinced that the Security Council … will be able to do it next time as well.”