Two Kurdish youths studying at İnönü University in the province of Malatya were assaulted by a racist group yesterday evening.

The Kurdish students were assaulted at a central location after being tracked by a racist group on their way home in the evening. The students are reported to have suffered injuries in the racist attack which was later intervened by police units drawing the assailants away from the scene.

Attacks by racist, nationalist and pro-Turkish groups against Kurds have remarkably increased across Turkey in recent years as the politicians continue uttering provocative statements, as a result of which more and more Kurdish citizens living out of the North Kurdistan region in Turkey, as well as their institutions, the HDP offices being in the first place, are being targeted and left aggrieved, while on the other hand perpetrators of such attacks remain unquestioned and unpunished.