Hürriyet Daily Attacked after the Clashes in Dağlıca

After the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) bombing attacks which killed and wounded many soldiers in Dağlıca district of Hakkari province in eastern Turkey against two armored military vehicles, a group of people attacked the building of Hürriyet Daily in İstanbul.

Hürriyet Daily shared the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks on twitter: “If Justice and Development Party (AKP) had had 400 deputies, these incidents wouldn’t have occurred.”

Erdoğan has spoken on ATV:

"If a political party had had 400 deputies or had caught the number to change the constitution, the situation would have been different today."

Employees of Hürriyet told bianet that a group of people saying Allahu Akbar and shouting the name of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan broke the glasses of Hürriyet Daily's building and scattered the tables and computers in the first floor.

After the first attack, the crowd retreated when security guards fired their guns up in the air.

The crowd carrying stick and stones shouted slogans: “martyrs are immortal, our land is indivisible!” Some people from the crowd tore up the flag of Hürriyet Daily.

Hürriyet Daily’s Editor-in-Chief, Sedat Ergin, went to the daily’s building at midnight.

Ergin later told CNNTürk:

“You see that perpetrators are from AKP and they don’t even hide it. They shouted slogans in the President Erdoğan’s favour. We examine the news that we made if it is right or wrong. Even if it is wrong, you can’t attack with stick and stones. You can’t give justification for attacking with stick and stones in a democratic, legal state. (EKN/BD)

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