Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan leaves a funeral as he is surrounded by security guards, politicians and officials at Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey, August 26, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Clinging to his brother's coffin, draped in the red Turkish flag, Lieutenant Colonel Mehmet Alkan's outburst was a rare public show of defiance from a serving officer as Turkish jets bombard Kurdish militants.
"Who is his murderer? Who caused this? How come those who spoke of settlement until yesterday now speak of war," he shouted in front of television cameras as they filmed mourners, in thinly-veiled reference to Turkey's political leaders.
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