Injured Kurdish protester is carried by his friend as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir

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An injured Kurdish protester is carried by his friend as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir October 8, 2014. At least 12 people died on Tuesday during violent clashes across Turkey, local media reported, as the fate of the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani stirred up decades of tensions with Turkey’s Kurdish minority. Violence erupted in Turkish towns and cities mainly in the Kurdish southeastern provinces, as protesters took to the streets to demand the government do more to protect Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish settlement which has been surrounded by Islamic State fighters for three weeks. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (TURKEY – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)