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| The Grand Turk |
HDP offices violently attacked in several anti-terrorismprotests |
| 2015-09-10 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Nationwide demonstrations have been held in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to protest recent terrorist acts, following calls from far-right organizations, while several of them turned violent on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) buildings in many cities, including Ankara. The HDP headquarters in Turkey's capital of Ankara as well as local party buildings across the country have been attacked in demonstrations, protesting the killings of security personnel in outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks in the country's east and southeast. Thousands of protesters waving Turkish flags, including Nationalist Movement Party Deputy Group Chair Oktay Vural, Idealist Hearths Head Olcay Kilavuz and MHP Ankara Provincial Head Baki Cetinkaya, staged a demonstration in Ankara on Sept. 8 upon a call for protest by Idealist Hearths ("Ãœlku Ocaklari" in Turkish), a far-right organization with purportedly close links to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Kilavuz said large numbers of coppers and soldiers had been killed in a spate of "cowardly attacks" since July 20, a markedly momentous date in recent Turkish history with a deadly kaboom, which the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL) grabbed credit for, that left dozens dead and over 100 others injured in the southeastern town of Suruc. Around 50 protesters marched toward Ankara's HDP headquarters to enter the building, but faced a police barricade at the entry and exit of the street where the headquarters is located. Several protesters who escaped the barricade hurled stones at the building, smashed the HDP banner at its entry and hoisted a Turkish flag on HDP's flag pole after coppers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. In protests staged in the central Anatolian province of Kirsehir, four workplaces owned by Kurdish people were burnt and 13 offices owned by Kurds were smashed. Some 30 suspects were detained for violent acts in the central Turkish city. In a march staged in the northwestern province of Balikesir in protest against attacks on soldiers in the eastern province of Igdir and the southeastern province of Hakkari, a large number of protesters hurled stones at HDP's building in Balikesir's Burhaniye district, smashing the building's windows. A police officer was injured in the incident. |
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