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Shortly after three people were arrested for “deliberately injuring” Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) Vice Chair and Hatay MP Barış Atay, the party has released a statement, underlining that the instigators of the attack must also stand trial.

Taken into custody as part of the investigation launched into the attack on Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) Vice Chair and Hatay MP Barış Atay, three people have been arrested on charge of "deliberate injury."

Turkey’s Parliamentary Speaker Mustafa Şentop has condemned the attack on Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) Vice Chair and Hatay MP Barış Atay. “What is necessary is being done to identify and investigate the perpetrators,” he has said.

Şaban Önen, the Grant Holder of Karacabey Yörem newspaper, has been attacked by persons who are allegedly the relatives of ruling AKP’s Karacabey Mayor Ali Özkan.

A man who punched women walking on the street in Ulus, Ankara has been released. Women say that they do not have any safety of life anymore.

A group of tourists who wanted to have their pictures taken with a scarf Kurdistan written on it were assaulted in Trabzon. The Governorship has announced that nine detained tourists will be deported from Turkey.

The person who has written a racist writing on the wall of Surp Takavor Armenian Church in Kadıköy and dumped garbage on its front door has been released after being taken into custody.

Last night, unidentified suspects opened fire on the home of the brother of pro-government journalist Cem Küçük. There were no casualties in the attack.

DİHA reporter Çelik was first followed and then attacked on 25 May in Istanbul. Çelik has 2 cracks in his head and his left arm is broken in three places. Security cameras recorded footage of the attack. This is the 3rd attack on a DİHA reporter throughout the past 11 days.

Metin Alataş, employee of the Kurdish Azadiya Welat newspaper, was found dead in the Hadırlı district of Adana. Newspaper editor Boltan doubts an alleged suicide: "Altaş was killed by illegal forces or he was forced to commit suicide", Boltan argued.

Batman GAP newspaper editor-in-chief Mansur Obut claims he was attacked in governor Ahmet Turhan's office. The Govenernor Generalship announced Turhan is accused because he had declined the SODES project by the State Planning Agency.