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One protester died after police opened fire to disperse Kurdish demonstrators in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, raising the death toll in six days of street violence to nine, security sources said.

They said Mehmet Sidik Onder, 22, had been shot in the stomach when police started firing in the air to stop a protest march in the town of Kiziltepe, near the Syrian border.

He was part of a crowd that had marched to the family home of another protester, 27-year-old Ahmet Arac, who was shot dead in Kiziltepe on Saturday, they said.

Riots in the mainly Kurdish region erupted on Tuesday after the funerals of 14 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed in clashes with the military last weekend.

The civil unrest has been some of Turkey's worst since the PKK took up arms against the state in 1984.

Security sources said additional troops were being deployed to Kiziltepe, a town of about 100,000 people south of the region's largest city, Diyarbakir.

Locals gathered under a canopy to express condolences to relatives of the two men killed in the town.

"The people are very angry and I think the trouble will continue. We are protesting because we want Europe to know what is happening. How can Turkey enter the EU when it is like this?" asked Abdulkadir, a car salesman and friend of Arac.

AUTONOMY AND LIVING STANDARDS

Political analysts and diplomats say the violence reflects local anger over high unemployment, poverty and Ankara's refusal to grant more autonomy to the mainly Kurdish region.

Locals are disappointed that more reforms have not emerged out of Turkey securing an EU go-ahead last October to begin accession talks, and pledges of economic improvements by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

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Meanwhile the conflict, or better said a kind of Kurdish uprising in Turkey, N. Kurdistan is reaching the Turkish and Kurdish diaspora. Before yesterday in the early night young Kurdish activists in Berlin, Germany, attacked a bourgeois Turkish restaurant, to protest against the massacres by the police and military against civilians there. The owners of the attacked restaurant have usually also no problems to support German conservative members of the govt. and beside Turkish rightwing politicians.

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