Police attack celebration for Rojava Revolution: 16 injured
VAN (DİHA) - Police staged crackdown on people who celebrated the third anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in İpekyolu district of Van.
Turkish police staged crackdown on people who celebrated the third anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in Xaçort neighborhood in İpekyolu district of Van. During the conflict that followed the attack, police fired tear gas canisters deliberately targeting the houses in the neighborhood. 16 people, including children and pregnant women, were hospitalized after being affected by the intense tear gas attack. The gas canisters also left the windows of a number of houses broken.
HDP deputies Remzi Özgökçe, Yurdusev Özsekmenler and Tuba Hezer, HDP Van provincial co-chairs Hamiyet Şahin and Münir Aras, as well as party executives who went to the neighborhood on hearing about the incidents strongly reacted to the attitude and attack of police forces. HDP and DBP executives later visited the people treated at various hospitals in the city.
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