The police has attacked students in Dicle University in Diyarbakır on Tuesday dropping tear gas from helicopters. The students wanted to protest against a previous incident in which a different group of students had attacked left wing students.

The police baton charged the left wing students who were trying to march in the campus. 

Tension continues in the campus area where at least four were reported injured during the conflict today. Entering the campus area with armored and riot control vehicles, police has taken a number of students and civilians into custody. The number of the injured, two of whom were reportedly stabbed, is feared to increase.

Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Aysel Tuğluk and Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Diyarbakır provincial co-chair Zübeyde Zümrüt who have arrived in the campus to express her solidarity with the beaten students  have been holding talks with police officers and students who have been targeted by the attacks for the last several days.

Releasing a statement on the conflict at the university, DTK condemned the attacks which it commented as a provocation against the ongoing process of talks for a solution to the Kurdish question.

DTK called on all national and social circles to display sensitivity and responsibility towards the process.