ISTANBUL: An unidentified gunman fired shots at the headquarters of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party on Saturday, but there were no casualties in an attack the party and the government described as a provocation ahead of a June parliamentary election.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said two people had been detained in connection with the attack but no further details were immediately available.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said in a statement the attacker had opened fire with a pump-action shotgun from a passing vehicle on its headquarters in the capital Ankara, damaging the building and the flags hung outside it.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2015

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