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2023 Adana Attack
The 2023 Adana attack was a knife attack at the Adana Province, Adana provincial headquarters of the Free Cause Party (HüdaPar), located in Seyhan, Turkey. Salih Demir, the president of HüdaPar's Adana wing, was injured, and his secretary Sacit Pişgin lost his life. Background The Free Cause Party was the target of much attacks and controversy around the time of the 2023 Turkish general election, due to it being a Kurds, Kurdish and an Islamism, Islamist party. During that time, a group of people gathered around the HüdaPar provincial headquarters in Gaziantep and flashed the Wolf salute whilst yelling provocative phrases. Around the same time in Antalya, a group known as the Turan Academy of Sciences gathered around the HüdaPar provincial building and also flashed wolf salutes while flying nationalist flags. Also around that time, HüdaPar members who worked at street stands were physically attacked in Trabzon. Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu blamed that attack on Ümit Özdağ, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adana Province
Adana Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the residents of the province. Its area is 13,844 km2, and its population is 2,274,106 (2022). It is also closely associated with other Cilician provinces of Mersin Province, Mersin, Osmaniye Province, Osmaniye, and (northern) Hatay Province, Hatay. Geography The southern and central portion of the province mostly falls within the Çukurova, Çukurova Plain (historically known as the Cilicia, Cilician Plain); to the north, the plains give way to the Taurus Mountains (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Toros Dağları''). The provinces adjacent to it are Mersin Province, Mersin to the west, Hatay Province, Hatay to the southeast, Osmaniye Province, Osmaniye to the east, Kahramanmaraş Province, Kahramanmaraş to the northeast, Kayseri Province, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
