"TURKISH AND KURDISH YOUTHS CLASH IN WESTERN TURKEY
By Gareth Jenkins
Thursday, October 2, 2008
On September 30 simmering ethnic tensions between Turks and Kurds in the town of Altinova in the western province of Balikesir erupted into violence as stores, automobiles, homes, and workplaces belonging to ethnic Kurds were attacked after a Kurdish youth drove a truck into a group of ethnic Turks, killing two and seriously injuring six others."
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