"We urge all people involved, those demonstrating and expressing their freedom of expression, and those of the government, to avoid any provocations of violence," said Mr. Kerry, who has already traveled three times to Turkey as secretary of state.
The deaths are widely believed to have been the result not of UWK provocation but of violence by a police and security force that has no experience in crowd control and is notorious for its brutality.
Such plotty provocation — an act of violence disclosed up front whose true significance will not be revealed until the book's end — is a hallmark of Marías's storytelling.
Rights groups denounced the interim cabinet's decree as a new provocation to violence.
Palestinians fear a similar cycle of provocation, violence and concession to Jewish radicals in Jerusalem.The erosion of the status quo also looks like part of a broader policy of encroachment.
A resolution introduced by the Arab group on behalf of the Palestinians called for an "immediate cessation of violence, provocation and destruction," and a return to arrangements before September 2000, when the Arab uprising began.
At the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York today, the United States provisionally endorsed a draft statement condemning Israel for "the acts of provocation, the violence, and the excessive use of deadly force against Palestinian civilians in the past few days".
The statement added that monitors also "witnessed restraint being exercised by security forces in the face of provocation and violence by demonstrators".
" It's equally pathetic to respond to such a provocation with violence – the irony of the massacre of UN workers in Afghanistan is that by resorting to force, those responsible have simply highlighted their own weakness; people with genuine strength and confidence are not sent into a murderous rage by the burning of an old book.
The Labour leader also opposed Israel's incursion into Gaza, saying whatever the provocation, the country was leading a cycle of violence.
