Turkish Police Clash with Protesters Denouncing ISIL

Local Editor

Turkish police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators protesting so-called "Daesh's" [ISIL] advance on a Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey as the protests took place in the city of Istanbul and at least six other cities in the country, according to media reports on Tuesday.

The private Dogan news agency said on Tuesday that clashes broke out in several Istanbul neighborhoods overnight.

Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse similar protests in the mostly Kurdish-populated cities of Diyarbakir, Batman, Van, Sirnak, Sanliurfa and Hakkari.

Meanwhile, Daesh militants have pushed into the Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab.

The Daesh militants control large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq after rapid advances in the summer [2014]. Daesh sent its militants into Iraq in June, quickly seizing large swaths of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.

While the United States launched air strikes on Daesh targets in Iraq in August and has since widened them to Syria recently, some countries have since criticized the air strikes on both countries.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team