DTP Branch Offices Under Poisoned Letter Attacks

Head of the Gaziosmanpaşa district of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) Erhan Özer has informed bianet that three of their members were poisoned by a mail sent to them around eleven o’clock.

The DTP is waiting for the results of the analysis regarding the letter and an investigation that will ensue.

According to Özer’s account, the eyes of Ahmet Ece, Zeytin Işık and Günay Diri started burning after opening the letter. A little while, they also started showing signs of throwing up. Although they were fine after washing their hands and faces, when they came into contact with the letter to understand what was going on, the same process repeated itself.

Once they were taken to the hospital, they were able to find out they were poisoned, but the doctors could not figure out the type of the poison. The letter was taken by the crime scene teams, once the police was informed. In the meantime, Ece, Işık and Diri are doing fine.

“Insults, fragmented sentences and a telephone number with no answer”

Özer said that the letter that was sent from Büyükçekmece / Istanbul had consisted of insults, threats, fragmented sentences that were difficult to read and a telephone number that did not answer.

It seems like it was sent by the İHD

DTP’s Bağcılar district organization also received a letter that was made to look like the Human Rights Association (İHD) had sent it. This letter was not opened.

İHD’s İstanbul branch condemned the attack today and demanded from the authorities to solve the incident as soon as possible.

The İHD said that they had experienced a similar attack in June 2006, with three people getting hospitalized. (TK/TB)