Syrian Kurds from the Syrian town of Qamishli gather behind border fences as Turkish troops stand guard (foreground) on the Turkish side of the border to prevent Turkish Kurdish protesters from approaching the fences in the southeastern town of Nusaybin November 7, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - When gunmen stormed a wedding and shot dead a guest in south-eastern Turkey, they stirred fears of a new outbreak of bloodshed in a region increasingly destabilised by Syria's civil war.
The killing in the city of Batman highlighted divisions between Kurds which echo the faultlines of the conflict in Syria, complicating Ankara's efforts to draw a line under a three-decade Kurdish insurgency on its own soil.
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