Clashes With Kurds Are Pushing Turkey Back Toward Conflict -- New York TimesCIZRE, Turkey — Thousands of people filled the streets of this dusty town near the borders with Syria and Iraq on Sunday to mourn the death of a local heroine, a commander in a mountaintop training camp for Kurdish militants seeking autonomy for the country's largely Kurdish southeast.
The elderly leaned on knotted wooden canes as they marched, and children in balaclavas fashioned from T-shirts gathered stones to throw at police officers at dusk, when the sounds of percussion bombs echoed through deserted streets. Chants exulting the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., mingled with condolences for the family of Cicek Botan, a native of Cizre and the middle-age P.K.K. commander who fought the Turkish state for more than two decades before being killed on Oct. 10 in a raid on a training camp in Iraq.
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