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| 3 dead in attack during AKP campaign event in Turkey's southeast |
| 2018-06-16 |
| [Rudaw] Three people have been killed and several injured in a shooting incident in the southeast of the country. Conflicting reports of what occurred have emerged. Members of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), including MP Ibrahim Halil Yildiz, came under attack in Suruc, just across the Syrian border from Kobane on Thursday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. "There are maimed people. First aid has been given to them. There was need for an air ambulance, it has been dispatched," said Turkey's Health Minister Ahmet Demircan, adding that "we will share information as we receive it." Three people were reportedly rubbed out and at least eight more injured. Dogan News Agency reported that MP Yildiz was visiting shopkeepers when a heated argument with a group of unidentified persons turned violent. MP Yildiz escaped the incident unscathed. However his older brother Mehmet Ali Yildiz is among the dead, succumbing to his wounds after arriving at the hospital. An anonymous source claimed to Anadolu that the attackers were from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Other reports said the group had expressed support for the PKK. Pro-Kurdish media, however, have blamed Yildiz’s bodyguards for the attack and the deats. An investigation is ongoing. Surac is a majority Kurdish town in the Sanliurfa region and the location of the July 20, 2015 bombing which claimed 34 lives and injured roughly 100 people. The bombing was blamed on ISIS. Voters in Turkey will go to the polls to elect a president and parliament in snap elections on June 24. |
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