Attack on Turkish journalist and Erdogan’s enemy living in exile in Berlin

Attack of three men received Turkish journalist Erk Ajarer, a declared opponent of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan living in exile in Berlin.

The journalist, as broadcast by APE-MPE, was injured in the attack that took place last night, Wednesday night, outside his residence, the police announced today.

The 48-year-old journalist He also made the attack public on social media, attributing it to supporters of the Turkish president’s AKP party.

Ajarer “Was attacked by three men in the yard of the apartment building”, explained in a statement the Berlin police, according to which two men beat him while a third was guarding chilies.

The journalist was taken to hospital with head injuries. He said in a video he posted on Twitter after the attack that his condition was reassuring and that he was able to return home.

Attack on Turkish journalist: “You will not write!”

The journalist, against whom arrest warrants have been issued in Turkey and who has been living in Germany since 2017, also assures in the video that one of the perpetrators of the attack shouted: “you will not write!”.

Another dissident Turkish journalist, Jan Dudar, who also lives in exile in the German capital, tweeted a “direct message” from President Erdogan that showed Ankara “could attack.” even in Berlin, to a journalist who criticizes the regime. “

Dudar has been living in Germany since 2016. A former editor of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, he was imprisoned in Turkey.

Journalist Mesale Tolu, who spent a few months detained in Turkey in 2017, also expressed her indignation. “So many people are seeking protection in Germany and are still being attacked here. “This must stop,” he wrote on Twitter.

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