Aftermath of #TurkeyElections An Islamist leader killed in Diyarbakır, pro-AKP accounts blame PKK
Even the pro-Hüdapar accounts calls for calm, while pro-AKP accounts try to provoke…
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— Yusuf (@YuzarsifKeskin) June 9, 2015
Hüdapar partisans attacked journalists after the killing. Here is DHA Agency reporter Canan Altıntaş:
Diyarbakır'da saldırıya uğrayan DHA muhabiri Canan Altıntaş pic.twitter.com/AYCRHEhm9J
— Muhalif Ç. (@muhalif_c) June 9, 2015
The death toll in the twin bombings at a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) rally in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır has risen to three, with 17-year-old Civan Arslan succumbing to his injuries while in a hospital on June 8
The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) last candidate from Diyarbakır, poet Edip Berk, unexpectedly secured a seat in parliament in the June 7 general election, as the candidate before him resigned and the HDP managed to win the city by a landslide.
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