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Erdoğan's move comes against a backdrop of heightened violence between Turkey's security forces and militants belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) and its radical offshoots.

"All our children experience heightened violence because of poverty, rivalries between local families, drug trafficking and Israeli settlements pressing into our dense Palestinian neighbourhood," another mother reported.

"All our children experience heightened violence because of poverty, rivalries between local families, drug trafficking and Israeli settlements pressing into our dense Palestinian neighbourhood", another mother reports.

The country is preparing to host two million visitors at the showpiece Euro 2016 football tournament in two weeks, and the back-drop is not ideal: strikes and feared fuel shortages, potential transport paralysis, a terrorist threat, a state of emergency and a mood of heightened tension and violence between street protesters and police.

The blaze and the ensuing violence heightened tension between the government and the traditional Bugandan kingdom, which covers 9,000 square miles.

The Protestant parades, which drew about 30,000 marchers, took place against the backdrop of heightened sectarian violence in Belfast.

This week, Strathclyde police reiterated their concerns over the heightening violence and public disorder around Old Firm derbies.

A small minority of demonstrators on both sides were armed with sticks and golf clubs, heightening fears of violence between the groups, which were separated by only a few hundred yards.

Sex workers are at a heightened risk for violence.

Transgender advocates say the community has a heightened risk of violence and harassment.

The disclosure of the plan comes amid a period of sharply heightened tension between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem, which has been the centre of daily violence in recent days.