Diyarbakir, Turkey (Reuters)-A 19-year old Kurdish man was killed Sunday when a late night grenade exploded in his hand during Assembly demonstration in southeastern Turkey, which has a Kurdish majority, said local authorities on Monday.
The man was among 100 protesters who gathered in the city of Diyarbakir to protest ahead of the commemoration of the anniversary of the arrest of the Kurdish leader 14, Abdullah Ocalan, in Kenya on February 15, the AFP report.
He was preparing to throw the grenade the police when the gun went off in his hand, said Diyarbakir's Governor Mustafa Toprak, was quoted as saying the Government television channel TRT.
"He also suffered wounds in his ear, which makes us think that the grenade exploded when he was trying to throw it," said Toprak.
However, a number of witnesses who cited the network of pro-Kurdish Firat News said, the man was hit by a police armored vehicle during the protests.
"I don't see it brings something in his hand. But (the police) vehicles were speeding down the road, melindasnya, "said a shop owner who witnessed the events.
The investigation about the death of these men will continue to be done, the Governor said.
Ocalan, who was then a fugitive arrested in Kenya on February 15, 1999 in a secret operation Turkey after he was exiled from Syria, where he was based for a decade to organize the workers ' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).
The initial verdict against Ocalan death sentence converted to life imprisonment sentence on a prison island off the coast of Istanbul since 2002.
Each year the Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police to protest Turkey's arrest of their leader.
Turkey, the EU and the u.s. considers the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization.
Turkey's military launched air attacks and ground operations are limited to the northern Iraq since August 2011 following the wave of attacks, the PKK guerrillas after the traffic-jammed a ceasefire before.
The PKK launched attacks from their hiding places in the remote mountains of Iraq as part of their war to gain greater rights and autonomy for the Kurdish population.
More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK took up arms in 1984. (M014)
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