Gunmen burst into the office of
Deryan Aktert, an AK Party official
in the country's southeast.
Pro-Kurd demonstrators have in the past
scuffled with riot police during protests
in the restive southeastern region of
Turkey [Reuters]

A local official from Turkey's ruling
party has been shot and killed in the
country's southeastern region, where
Kurdish fighters affiliated with the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
operate, authorities have said.
Deryan Aktert, who headed the AK
Party's branch in Diyarbakir's Dicle
district, was attacked in his office on
Monday night at 10:30pm local time
(1930 GMT) by suspected PKK
fighters, the provincial governor's office
said on Tuesday.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility, but the PKK - in a
mounting conflict with government
forces in the region bordering Iran, Iraq
and Syria - has been behind many of the
attacks in the past.
Ebubekir Bal, an AK Party
parliamentarian representing
Diyarbakir, said armed men had
previously attacked Aktert's office last
year, according to Reuters news agency.
A day earlier, assailants killed Aydin
Mustu, the ruling party's deputy leader
in the Ozalp district of Van, a city 350km
to the east of Diyarbakir.