DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish parliamentary opposition launched three months of protests on Tuesday against a state crackdown which has seen dozens of lawmakers and mayors jailed over suspected links to militant separatists.
Hundreds of police, backed by armoured vehicles and water cannon, imposed tight security at a park where 10 lawmakers of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) gathered in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.
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