Kürkçü: We’ve Always Maintained a Stance against TAK’s Actions
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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İzmir MP Ertuğrul Kürkçü has said “We’ve always maintained the same stance against such actions, which restrict and obstruct political struggle, demoralize people” about TAK’s bomb attack in Diyarbakır.
11 people including two police officers had lost their lives in the bomb attack launched near outbuilding of Anti-Terror and Riot Squad branch directorates in Diyarbakır’s Bağlar district on November 4.
First Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), then Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
"I see these actions as a sort of vengefulness"
“No word can justify a blind violence targeting our deputies, co-chairs, executives and civilians. No liberty movement can gloss over falling on the same line with ISIS, infringing right to live with a mere apology”, Kürkçü tweeted on November 6.
“We had made statements with [HDP Ankara MP] Sırrı Süreyya Önder against TAK’s such actions. We’ve always maintained the same stance against such actions, which restrict and impede political struggle, demoralize people.
“I don’t see these actions, which are lacking politics, as actions that promote and increase liberty fight no matter what their objective intentions are. I see these as a blind violence, a sort of vengefulness. The struggle in general is a part of insurgency but I don’t see these actions like that”.
TAK’s attacks
- TAK had claimed responsibility for the explosions at apron in İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport on December 23, 2015. TAK had announced it as the end of their inaction they started in 2011.
- TAK had claimed responsibility for the following attacks it launched earlier:
- Bombed attacks on van carrying tourists in Kuşadası province of Aydın, which left five tourists and one police officer dead, and 34 people wounded on July 17, 2005.
- The explosion in Anafartalar bazaar in Ulus district of Ankara which killed seven people, and wounded 102 on May 23, 2007.
- Explosion in Bakırköy district of İstanbul which wounded 31 people on June 10, 2007.
- Bombed attack which left 15 police officers wounded in Küçükçekmece district of İstanbul on June 8, 2007.
- Explosion that occurred during passage of shuttle carrying military staff near military housing in Halkalı district of İstanbul on June 22, 2010.
- Attack on Konyaaltı beach in Antalya on August 26, 2011 and the attack on Kemer public beach leaving 6 wounded on August 28.
- Bomb attack which left three people dead, 34 others wounded in Kızılay district of Ankara on September 20, 2011.
- The attack launched against military vehicle killing 28 on Merasim street in Ankara on February 17, 2016.
- The attack launched in Kızılay, the Ankara’s one of most crowded district claiming lives of 37 on March 13, 2016.
- The bomb attack carried out against police bus killing 11 people including six police officers in İstanbul’s Vezneciler district on June 7, 2016.
- The attack that took place at the western door of Grand Mosque in Bursa wounding 20 people on April 28, 2016.
- The attack that wounded 10 people in İstanbul’s Bahçelievler district on October 6, 2016. (NV/TK)