ATTACKS DUE TO LANGUAGE

Istanbul, 6 September 2015
Sedat Akbas is attacked and stabbed to death by six men at a bus stop for talking in Kurdish on a phone.

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Burial of Sedat Akbas
on 11 September 2015 in Batman

 

Istanbul, 23 October 2015
The Kurdish singer Selîm Serhad ist stabbed to death onstage for singing a song in his mother tongue.

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Selim Serhed

 

Uşak, 15 May 2016
Eren Sömer is stabbed on the streets for talking Kurdish. He survived. The suspects got unharnessed.

Eren Sömer