Deadly clashes broke out across southeast Turkey as the region’s Kurds protested the government’s limited response to Islamic State militants threatening the town of Kobani just across the Syrian border. Demonstrators fought with police and, in some areas, with members of local Islamist groups, according to Turkish media. Haberturk website said at least 15 people were killed in the violence, most of them in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish city. A curfew was imposed there at 10 p.m. local time yesterday, as well as in Mardin, Siirt, Batman and Van, according to Hurriyet newspaper, which put the death toll at 14. The outpouring of anger came as Syrian Kurdish fighters failed to stop Islamic State advancing through the outskirts of Kobani, a mainly Kurdish town that militants besieged three weeks ago. Kurds have blamed the Turkish government for not doing enough to help the town’s defenders and warned that the […]