People’s Democratic Party, HDP vice co-chair Meral Danış Bektaş, head of the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions, KESK, Lami Özgen, and head of the Human Rights Association (IHD) Öztürk Türkdoğan, have come to  the HDP Ankara Provincial Branch office, where HDP Assembly member Ahmet Karataş was seriously wounded in an attack, in order to assess the incident at the scene.  

Issuing a statement there, Bektaş said the evidence to find and arrest the attacker are present, adding that in some incidents evidence is removed, which they will not allow to happen this time. She said Karataş had been stabbed seven times and was in a serious condition.  

Recalling the statements from the government authorities, Bektaş said: “Just yesterday, the President said: ‘We do not want to think about the consequences’. Is this what he meant by consequences? Those who provided the basis for this attack know themselves very well”.