Turkish police injure two Kurdish MPs during demonstration
The crowd was also intending to voice support for an ongoing hunger strike by Kurdish political prisoners who demand an end to a policy of isolation on the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan.
A Diyarbakir-based journalist, Nurcan Baysal, tweeted that her sources said Tosun had a fracture in her backbone.
The police also used batons to hit the lawmakers and their supporters.
Another Diyarbakir MP Musa Farisogullari suffered injuries to his eyes, which bled. He was also promptly hospitalized.
Both MPs later tweeted from their hospital beds and thanked people for messages of support, reassuring their state was not critical.
Under Erdogan’s rule, government forces and authorities have been empowered to deny citizens the exercise of their constitutional right to protest and use force if necessary.
HDP’s Baglar district candidate who won the March 31 elections by 70.34 percent was denied a certificate of election by authorities due to his previous dismissal with a decree declaring him a “national security threat” by Erdogan from his job as a teacher at the ministry of education.
The HDP called the violent police intervention an attack and described it as “lawlessness.”
There was no reaction from Turkish opposition parties.
Editing by Karzan Sulaivany