Kurdish guerrillas of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) have claimed responsibility for the attack, last Wednesday, on the Prime Minister Erdoðan elections convoy on the road from Kastamonu to Ankara.

In the attack a police officer was killed and one other injured

Erdoðan, who had addressed his supporters in Kastamonu as part of election campaigning, had left Kastamonu for Amasya in a helicopter briefly before the attack took place.

In their statement the HPG said to have carried out the attack on the Prime Minister electoral convoy "against the police who is terrorizing our people".

The statement adds that “The Black Sea units of our Dersim Area carried out the attack against a police vehicle on the move in Kasatamonu on May 4 in retaliation."

The statement further adds that "We have several units at the Black Sea province. The attack was carried out by our Kemal Pir action team and was aimed to the police alone. Our target were neither the civilians nor the prime minister. This action is a message calling for the withdrawal of the AKP police from Kurdistan, where they are terrorizing our people. As it is known, police have attacked in the hardest possible way the Kurdish people in the last period. Our people and the media shall know that as People's Defense Forces, we will not be watching in silence the attacks on the people and we will use our right to retaliate against those attacking our people”.