Sunday, April 01, 2007

Ethnic Turks, Kurds clash in immigrant neighborhood of Brussels - International Herald Tribune

"Ethnic Turks, Kurds clash in immigrant neighborhood of Brussels

BRUSSELS, Belgium: Police used a water-cannon to disperse crowds of ethnic Turks and Kurds who clashed Sunday after a Kurdish cafe in an immigrant neighborhood burned down.

Demonstrators hurled cobblestones and bottles at armored cars and troops in riot gear who moved in to separate two crowds of about 100 demonstrators in the neighborhood of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a short walk from the buildings housing European Union institutions"

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