ANKARA
Turkey will not make concessions on public order, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday.
The Turkish leader was speaking after two nights of street violence connected to the ongoing battle between Kurdish forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants for control of Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border.
"Public order will be established either way; everyone will respect public order and public peace," Davutoglu said.
Some pro-Kurdish groups have started protests in various eastern regions against the Turkish government’s strategy over Kobani. Demonstrators have accused Ankara of not doing enough to protect the Kurdish population in that area.
Davutoglu stressed that Turkey was founded on the basis that the protection of the law for all citizens and the state is not based on any ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
"From now on, our behavior will be strict on those who disrupt public order or peace and those who act illegally," Davutoglu said.
The Turkish PM called for peace between all Turkish citizens and said: "We will not let vandalism damage the solution process.”
Turkey has launched what is domestically known as the ‘solution process’ to end a decades-old conflict between the state and the outlawed Kurdish separatist PKK movement.
"I hope that we all embrace the solution process and it will continue in an atmosphere of brotherhood and peace," Davutoglu said.
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