Earthquake survivor Veysi Atar, who has been living in Adiyaman (Semsûr) for 20 years, was attacked by an official and then by the gendarmes while he was going to get his name written to the IHH Organization on Sunday with his cousin to ask for help. Atar said that the Turkish police who came later said that they could "not deal" with him.

Veysi Atar, who had swelling behind his left ear and above his left eyebrow, explained the incident as follows: "At 3.05pm, we went to the IHH to put down our names for help. Before getting out of the car, there was a person there and he said 'we don't give help'. I said I needed to ask something. He replied there was nothing. When I said, 'You will have received the greetings of Allah', he entered the car with a big stick and attacked us. Then about 10 military cars came and the gendarmes started hitting me and my cousin. They also completely damaged the car. The police arrived on the scene, but said they had no time to deal with us."