Ultranationalist protesters in Kirsehir set fire to a bookstore owned by an HDP official (Source: Reuters)
ISTANBUL (Agos)””Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas, and HDP Armenian parliament member from Istanbul Garo Paylan, have both condemned the recent sharp increase in violence in Turkey and the targeting of the HDP by government-backed ultranationalist groups.
The ongoing attacks against the HDP, its offices and Kurdish civilians in various cities have rapidly increased in the last week. On Tuesday, September 8, HDP party buildings across Turkey were burned. The HDP’s headquarters in Ankara were also attacked. According to the HDP, over 400 Kurdish offices and businesses were attacked in just two days.
“Burning the headquarters of a political party amounts to burning the ideals of that party,”
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