ISTANBUL. – Another Armenian woman was attacked in Istanbul’s densely-Armenian-populated Samatya district, where two Armenian women were previously attacked in the past one month.

An elderly Istanbul Armenian woman was on her way to church on January 6, to attend the Armenian Christmas mass, when unidentified persons stopped her pledging monetary assistance, and they tried to force her to sit in their vehicle, Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly reports. But the old woman managed to escape from the hands of the unidentified persons, and she informed the police about this incident.         

The eyewitnesses informed that a white car had stopped near the woman, and the persons that came out of the vehicle asked for a woman named Fatma claiming that they are providing monetary assistance, and they offered it to her, too. But when the elderly Armenian woman turned down the offer, they attempted to force her into the car.  

To note, an 84-year-old Armenian woman was killed on December 29, 2012, as a result of sustaining seven stab wounds at her home in the aforesaid district, and some claimed that the killers had tattooed a cross on her body.