Turkey: 1 hurt in knife attack on pro-Kurdish party office

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police on Tuesday detained a man who wounded one person during a knife attack on a branch of a pro-Kurdish party in Istanbul, Turkish media reports said.

assailant entered People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, office in Istanbul’s Bahcelievler district and threatened to kill everyone inside building before wounding one person, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.

re was no immediate comment from party officials.

It was second attack on an HDP building this year. In June, a gunman stormed HDP’s office in Izmir province, in western Turkey, killing a female employee.

HDP, second-largest opposition party in Turkey’s parliament, is subject of a widespre government crackdown, with party members being accused of supporting an outlawed Kurdish militant group. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called party members terrorists.

Thousands of pro-Kurdish activists, along with lawmakers and party’s former leers, have been imprisoned.

HDP is also fighting a legal action seeking its closure for alleged links to militants.