Turkey: Opposition vice chair wounded in armed attack in SW

AYDIN, Turkey

Both suspects sought in the armed attack on the vice chair of Turkey’s main opposition party have been apprehended, the Aydin Governor’s Office announced Saturday night.

After a suspect identified as Alparslan S. was caught in Aydin’s Kusadasi district, his accomplice, identified as F. Y., surrendered to police, said the office.

Bulent Tezcan, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy as well as vice chair, was attacked by two armed men while dining with party members at a restaurant in the city of Aydin, the southwestern province’s capital.

The statement mentioned no motive for the attack.

Tezcan was shot in the leg and rushed to a hospital for treatment.

Kamil Okyay Sindir, the party’s secretary general, told Anadolu Agency that Tezcan is in good condition and should recover.

The assault comes just over two months after CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu escaped an armed attack by PKK terrorists on his party’s motorcade in the Black Sea province of Artvin.

AYDIN, Turkey

Both suspects sought in the armed attack on the vice chair of Turkey’s main opposition party have been apprehended, the Aydin Governor’s Office announced Saturday night.

After a suspect identified as Alparslan S. was caught in Aydin’s Kusadasi district, his accomplice, identified as F. Y., surrendered to police, said the office.

The statement mentioned no motive for the attack.

Tezcan was shot in the leg and rushed to a hospital for treatment.

Kamil Okyay Sindir, the party’s secretary general, told Anadolu Agency that Tezcan is in good condition and should recover.

The assault comes just over two months after CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu escaped an armed attack by PKK terrorists on his party’s motorcade in the Black Sea province of Artvin.