Turkish police detained nine people on Monday after a mob attack on the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who has been repeatedly criticised for supporting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday.
“There was no proof that this provocation was managed from abroad. The man who intended to hit Kilicdaroglu turned out to be a relative of the killed officer. Surveillance camera records have been examined. Nine people were detained during the investigation, all of them are residents of Akkuzulu village”, Soylu told journalists.
During the campaign held in Turkey on the eve of the municipal elections on 31 March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly accused Kilicdarogluof supporting the PKK, which is banned in the country. However, the CHP managed
to supplant the president’s party during the