‘Lynching Campaign’ Targets Kurds in Turkey, HDP Offices Attacked

BY RUPEN JANBAZIAN
From The Armenian Weekly

DIYARBAKIR (A.W.)””In a Sept. 8 press release, the Kurdish National Congress (KNK) said that coordinated mob attacks and lynchings on Sept. 6-8 targeted hundreds of Kurdish civilians in Western Turkey, injuring many and killing some. According to the KNK, the Turkish police participated in some of the attacks against the civilians, who have sought safety in the offices of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP).

A part of the destruction in Diyabakir (Source: Dara Melike Günal)

“The mobs are organizing themselves across social media, forming groups and attacking homes known to belong to Kurdish families,”