Crackdown on radical Kurds

BONN - German officials yesterday promised to crack down on radical Kurds who fought pitched battles with police and blocked …

BONN - German officials yesterday promised to crack down on radical Kurds who fought pitched battles with police and blocked major motorways in a weekend of political violence.

Police arrested hundreds of people and temporarily held more than 1,200 others who gathered on Saturday despite a ban on a planned protest in Dortmund.

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