Across Asia: Turkey

2 dead in Kurdish protest

A rifle-toting shopkeeper killed two people and wounded six others yesterday after stone-throwing Kurds damaged his textiles shop during nationwide protests in support of a banned pro-Kurdish party, the town's mayor said.

Turkey's Constitutional Court last week ordered the disbandment of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party on charges it supports the major outlawed rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK. Kurds responded with nationwide violent protests.