Member of pro-Kurdish party killed in Turkey

Ahmet Gün, a local executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, was killed on Monday.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg 2023/12/11 18:39

Ahmet Gün, a local executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, was killed (Photo: Mezopotamya Agency).

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Ahmet Gün, a local executive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, formerly abbreviated as HEDEP, was killed on Monday in an armed attack in the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Şırnak in Turkey.

The attack took place as Gün was traveling with his son in their vehicle in a rural area near Taloka village, reports the Mezopotamya Agency (MA).

The assailants, whose identities remain unknown, targeted the vehicle, leaving Ahmet Gün dead at the scene and his son injured.

The DEM Party (Time Party), succeeds the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HEDEP), which holds the third-largest representation in the parliament. The Turkish court rejected the acronym HEDEP due to similarities to the names of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the banned People's Democracy Party (HADEP).

The party, like many other pro-Kurdish parties in the country, has been accused of being a political extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by the Turkish government, which, along with many other NATO powers, considers the militant group to be a terrorist organization. The party has denied links to the PKK.