50 Kurdish migrant workers expelled from Eskiþehir

50 Kurdish migrant workers expelled from Eskiþehir

Following a racist attack in Mihalýccýk disrict against the Kurdish workers who came to the region as seasonal agricultural wokers, a quarrel was provoked where three of them seriously, eight workers were wounded.

While many people were detained and Action Force units were sent to the region after the event, villagers gathered in front of police and gendarmerie stations, opened Turkish flags and sang the Turkish National Anthem.

While seriously wounded brothers Yaþar and Osman Cay and Yeral Cifci are held in intensive care unit at Eskiþehir State Hospital and other wounded undergo a treatment in the district, tension in the district ended with the expulsion of Kurdish migrant agricultural workers from the region.

50 agricultural workers, who left the district under the supervision of security forces, are now being taken to Dinar district of Afyonkarahisar province, escorted by gendarmerie and the police.