Perpetrators Attack Hürriyet Daily for a Second Time

Hürriyet Daily has been attacked for a second time.

Last evening, at 9 p.m. a group of people who were allegedly supporters of Justice and Development Party (AKP) saying Allahu Akbar forced the door of Hürriyet’s building in İstanbul. 

The group had come in front of the building by three trucks. 

After entering the building from the main gate, the perpetrators were thrown out by security guards.

Employees said there weren’t enough policemen in front of Hürriyet’s building.

"Riot police came half an hour later”

Ali Örnek from Hürriyet Foreign news said the policemen came half an hour later after the attack via his twitter account.

100-150 people shouted slogans “Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!”

Hürriyet employees told bianet the number of riot policemen increased when 100-150 people shouted slogans: ‘Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!’

According to the website of Hürriyet, none of the perpetrators was arrested.

Hürriyet had been attacked on September 6

On September 6, perpetrators had attacked and damaged the building of Hürriyet Daily.

One of the perpetrators was AKP İstanbul deputy Abdurrahim Boynukalın. Boynukalın said regardless of the consequences of the general elections which would be held on November 1, they would make Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Head of the State. 

Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin told the incident

Sedat Ergin, Editor-in-Chief of Hürriyet told:

"They vandalized again. I ran for my life.

“If the President and Prime Minister had condemned the first attack, they couldn’t have attacked for a second time. There weren’t enough policemen. Perpetrators slowly came close to us. The police barricade wasn’t effective. The Government and Minister of the Interior are extremely culpable.

"We won’t be demoralized”

"We won’t make concessions as independent journalists and Hürriyet. We won’t be demoralized due to the oppression. These incidents are temporary. We will determinedly keep on doing our jobs. Let them come to our gates.” (EKN/HK/BD)

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