Turkish PM says protests after boy's death 'not democratic'


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  • Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan criticised protesters who took to the streets of cities across the country in their hundreds of thousands on Wednesday after the funeral of a 15-year-old boy wounded in anti-government clashes last summer.

"Trying to set fire to the streets 18 days before elections is not a democratic stance," Erdogan told a campaign rally in the south-eastern city of Mardin. Turkey holds municipal elections on March 30.

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