Four people were killed in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast on Tuesday after the shooting of an Islamic aid group leader touched off a violent clash, security sources said, two days after a historic election win for Kurds, Reuters reports.
The cause of the killings was not immediately clear, although there have been sporadic clashes in the southeast in recent years between Islamists and supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
Security sources confirmed that Aytac Baran, a leader of the Yeni Ihya Der aid group was shot dead as he left his office in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
Three more people were killed in a clash that followed, the security sources said.