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Turkish police have clashed with protesters demonstrating in support of the Kurdish town of Kobane near Syria's border with Turkey.

Peshmerga troops en route to Kobane to reinforce the Syrian Kurdish fighters battling Islamist militants were welcomed by large crowds while traveling through the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin.

Turkish Kurds cheered as a Peshmerga convoy was crossing the border district of Nusaybin, waving Kurdish flags and flashing victory signs.

The government has upped the ante in its increasingly heated rhetoric concerning the stalled peace process, with Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç maintaining that the process is not a sine qua non for the government.

Militants from Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Oct. 27 hijacked a truck, seizing 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of the explosive substance ammonium nitrate, the Turkish army said.

Turkey’s disaster agency will set up a tent city in Zakho, northern Iraq, to host around 16,000 Yazidi people who fled the Sinjar region amid ongoing attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).