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Lice (Turkey) (AFP) - A Kurdish protester has died of gunshot wounds sustained during fierce clashes with Turkish soldiers in the country's southeast on Saturday. Twenty-four-year-old Ramazan Baran died in hospital after the clashes between soldiers and Kurdish protesters angry at government plans to build military barracks in the Lice district of Kurdish majority Diyarbakir province, medics said. Witnesses told AFP Turkish soldiers also fired live bullets in the clashes. Tensions have been on the rise in Lice since protesters blocked a road two weeks ago over the construction of new army posts in Kurdish-majority areas, seen as a threat to a peace process launched in 2012 between the government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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