Three weeks after the local election in Turkey, Kemal Kilicdaroglu has been attacked by a mob. One man struck the politician in the face of a tightrope in the province of Ankara with his fist in the face, as was seen on Sunday on pictures CNN Türk.
Bodyguards tried to push back the enraged crowd and eventually brought the head of the largest opposition party CHP into a house. From there, Kilicdaroglu informed him that he was fine.
Because the crowd initially did not dissipate, Kilicdaroglu was released, according to CNN Türk with an armored vehicle. The exact background of the attack is unclear. The governorship said on Twitter that the incident was under investigation. The spokesman for the conservative AKP party Ömer Celik condemned the crime on Twitter.
Kilicdaroglu was at a funeral when he was attacked. A soldier who was killed along with three other military men on Saturday in battles with the PKK Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which is considered to be a terrorist, near the Iraqi border, was buried.
President and AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the CHP and three other opposition parties before the local elections on 31 March of working with the PKK and "sending their followers into the communities".
The AKP had lost the capital Ankara and the metropolis Istanbul in the local election to the CHP. In Istanbul, CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu was named mayor last week. The decision on an ACP request for a re-election is pending.