06-06-2015 17:58 via news.yahoo.com

Turkey's Erdogan, Kurdish leader in war of words after bombing

By Ayla Jean Yackley and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's Kurdish-rooted opposition party, which could scupper Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions for sweeping new powers, accused the President on Saturday of a lack of respect for supporters killed in a bomb attack in an election rally and demanded he apologize. Erdogan countered by accusing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas of instigating violence in October, linked to events in Syria
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