ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday opened the trial of dozens of members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People Party (HDP), including its former leader, over protests which broke out during an Islamic State assault on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in 2014.
Thirty-seven people died in the protests, which were triggered by accusations that Turkey's army stood by as the ultra-hardline militants besieged Kobani, a border town in plain view of Turkey.
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