Father shot dead, son wounded for saying 'we are Kurds' in Turkey

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Father shot dead, son wounded for saying 'we are Kurds' in Turkey
Kurdistan24

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A man was shot dead and his teenage son heavily wounded for saying “we are Kurds” when asked about their identity by an armed person on the street in the northern Turkish province of Sakarya last week, according to a family member.

Kadir Sakci, 43, was picking up his 16-year-old son Burhan Sakci from a barbershop at night time in Sakarya’s Hendek district when they were confronted by the attacker, 51-year-old Hikmet Usta, who asked if they “were Syrians or Kurds” upon hearing them speaking a language other than Turkish.

When they replied “we are Kurds,” he took out a gun from his waist and began shooting the Sakcis right on the spot, shouting “I don’t like you,” the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reported on Saturday.

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