Qandil is a mountain in Iraq`s north and the capital of the militant Kurdish Workers` Party or the PKK, which has been branded a terror organization by Ankara as well as the European Union and United States.
Turkish officials also suspended 1,151 teachers in the Kurdish eastern provinces of Tunceli and Van. Several hundreds gathered in Tunceli and Diyarbakir city to protest the dismissals, shouting slogans like "shoulder to shoulder against fascism." Police dispersed them using water cannons.
"This is an attack on our unionized struggle," Suleyman Guler, the provincial head of the education union, Egitim-Sen, told reporters, adding that he too was suspended from work. "It is not possible to accept this decision. There is neither a crime here nor a criminal. We call for the immediate halt of this move."
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