Driver of an AKP election services vehicle Atilla K. was punched and kicked in Balikesir province by a group of passerby who said they were irritated by the music his vehicle was broadcasting. They asked him to turn down the volume, which he refused. Two people were taken into custody after the incident.
It has been customary for candidates in modern Turkish elections to have songs composed for their campaign. This year, Erdogan had promised that no songs would be played in the streets, in mourning for the earthquake.
The promise was not kept.
Cumali Günal, an employee at an AKP election bureau in the Seyhan region of Adana province, was stabbed in the stomach at the bureau by two assailants in the early evening.
It is as yet unknown whether this was a personal vendetta or a political message.
Green Left Party (Yesil Sol Parti) MP candidate Muslum Koyun was arrested on charges of “affiliation with a terrorist organization” during an operation in Eskisehir province.
Minister of the Interior Suleyman Soylu has previously claimed that the Green Left Party was formed “on direct orders” from the PKK, a recognized Kurdish terrorist organization, and that the party’s lists contain “many terrorists come down from the mountains.”
A group promoting independent socialist MP candidate Güneş Gümüş tussled with police in central Ankara province when officers took a group member into custody while he was distributing literature.
Gümüş himself was there to protest the act, along with various passerby.
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