JINHA

MÊRDÎN - Police have slain a youth protesting police operations in the city of Nusaybin, Turkey.

Since Friday, over 800 people have been arrested in Turkey in a police operation being called a political genocide. Although the operations have been advertised as targeting "ISIS, YDG-H and DHKP-C," less than 50 of the arrestees are Daesh (ISIS) members. The majority of those swept up in the raids are thought to be left and Kurdish civil society activists.

Last night, youth took to the streets in the Kurdish city of Nusaybin, Turkey to protest the police operations, as well as the Turkish government's airstrikes against Kurdish guerrilla areas. Police rained live ammunition on the crowd in the Abdulkadirpaşa neighborhood at 1:30 a.m. last night, killing one, according to eyewitnesses.

The youth, whose name is still unknown, was first taken to the city's state hospital, then to a hospital in the nearby provincial capital of Mardin. The youth is currently being held in the morgue at the Mardin state hospital, where police are preventing anyone from approaching the body.

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