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Hacı Boğatekin wrote a column in his newspaper in 2011 criticizing Mehmet Metiner, recently elected MP from the ruling party, asking him if he was "a renegade or a cow" and he was sentenced to compensation by the local court for insulting the politician.

HDP’s Paylan has said that he has been deliberately targeted in the fight erupted in Constitution Commission by AKP members for him being Armenian, and told that AKP members said “Garo is here, Garo is here” to each other.

One person was taken into custody for an alleged assassination plot against Star newspaper writer Metiner. Suspect K.B. is allegedly affiliated with the militant PKK. The journalist assumed that he was targeted due to his support of the AKP policies.