ANKARA .- Less than a month before the general elections in Turkey an extremely tense atmosphere at the resurgence of the conflict with its Kurdish minority overshadowed the election campaign the South East. "The region is tense and quiet today. No electoral campaigns in other parts of Turkey," said Naci Sapan, chief editor of local daily Ozgur Haber, and recalled that "there are three days of mourning for the militants of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) killed." She was alluding to twelve members of the outlawed PKK killed last weekend by Turkish security forces in the border with Iraq. "Even the offices of political parties in charge of the campaign remained closed yesterday," destacó.Y telephone told Efe, Sapan highlighted a reaction never seen before: "More than 300 people, Kurdish (men, women and children), they crossed the border into northern Iraq to find the bodies of PKK militants killed. They did it in the presence of the troops that they around. And they acted as if they watch the border. "When they loaded the dead bodies behind him towards the Turkish side of the border, clashed with policemen who took away the bodies to bring them autopsias.En mourning yesterday Most shops remained closed in the evening, participants in a march of mourning that started from Galatasaray Square in Istanbul burned several cars to paso.Selahattin Demirtas, president of the pro-Kurdish Party for Peace and Democracy (BDP ), accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's moderate Islamist, had ordered the killing of members of Army PKK in order to win and the votes of the nacionalistas.Demirtas, who left the office said in order to present the elections as an independent candidate, also complained that the atmosphere of mourning in the region, with new deaths daily there makes it impossible to develop his own election campaign.
Lissette Garcia
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