HDP offices violently attacked in several anti-terrorism protests

Nationwide demonstrations have been held in Turkey to protest recent terrorist acts, following calls from far-right organizations, while several of them turned violent on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) buildings in many cities, including Ankara.

The HDP headquarters in Turkey's capital of Ankara as well as local party buildings across the country have been attacked in demonstrations, protesting the killings of security personnel in outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks in the country's east and southeast.

Thousands of protesters waving Turkish flags, including Nationalist Movement Party Deputy Group Chair Oktay Vural, Idealist Hearths Head Olcay K?lavuz and MHP Ankara Provincial Head Baki Çetinkaya, staged a demonstration in Ankara on Sept. 8 upon a call for protest by Idealist Hearths ("Ülkü Ocaklar?" in Turkish), a far-right organization with purportedly close links to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

K?lavuz said large numbers of police officers and soldiers had been killed in a spate of "cowardly attacks" since July 20, a markedly momentous date in recent Turkish history with a deadly bomb attack, which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL) claimed responsibility for, that left dozens dead and over 100 others injured in the southeastern town of Suruç.

Around 50 protesters marched toward Ankara's HDP headquarters to enter the building, but faced a police barricade at the entry and exit of the street where the headquarters is located.

Several protesters who escaped the barricade hurled stones at the building, smashed the HDP banner at its entry and hoisted a Turkish flag on HDP's flag pole after police officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In protests staged in the central Anatolian...