Baku-APA. The death toll in the anti-Islamic- States (IS) protests across Turkey rose to 24 on Thursday, private Dogan News Agency reported.
Most of the killed were from the southeastern provinces where the Turkish government has declared a curfew to quell the unrest that has been fueled mainly by supporters of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and Hizbullah, a radical Islamist group in Turkey whose members are mostly Kurdish.
The Turkish authorities has lifted curfew in some provinces on Thursday as violence subsided.
In a written statement on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the protests aimed at sabotaging the peace process between Kurdish rebels and the government, as the Turkish authority is having peace talks with the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to end decades of Kurdish insurgency.
Demonstrations erupted on Monday and turned violent in protesting against the Turkish government's failure to help prevent the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane from falling to the IS.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is affiliated with the PKK, has been calling on the Kurds in Turkey to hold demonstrations against the IS' "attempt to massacre" Syrian Kurds in the city of Kobane.
The HDP urged the Turkish government to defend Syrian Kurds in the neighboring country, where fierce clashes have dragged on between IS militants and Kurdish fighters for three weeks.
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