50 arrested in pro-Kurdish demonstration in Istanbul 

 ISTANBUL, Aug 26 (AFP) -  Turkish police detained 50 people, most of them women, on
 Sunday as they attempted to hold a pro-Kurdish demonstration in Istanbul, Anatolia news
 agency reported.

 The detainees were among over 100 members of "The Mothers' Initiative for Peace", a
 pro-Kurdish women's group, who had gathered in the Beyoglu district in the European quarter of
 Istanbul, the report said.

 Riot police made the arrests as a spokesman for the group began to read a statement to the
 press, the agency said. It gave no details.

 The Beyoglu district is frequently the scene of pro-Kurdish demonstrations against conditions in
 Turkish jails.

 A 10-month hunger strike by prisoners and relatives against jail conditions has claimed 31 lives.
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