Hundreds of Kurdish protesters lobbed stones at police and soldiers yesterday in southeastern Turkey in a fourth-straight day of clashes that have killed at least two people and injured dozens. A Kurdish demonstrator was shot to death yesterday and a police officer was injured, hospital officials said. Almost all shops were closed, with residents staying home.

The demonstrators - mostly members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society party, which faces closing for alleged ties to Kurdish were protesting against the death of a Kurd who died early yesterday after being shot during clashes with police a day earlier.