Attacks, that have taken place in recent years, and which are making Istanbul Armenians terrified, continue to be ignored by the Turkish authorities. This subject was again mentioned by the Istanbul Armenian newspaper Agos in the article “Turkey is silent - attacks continue.”

The correspondent of Agos writes:

The attacks on elderly Armenian women in Samatya were added by another one. They do not find any trace of the murder of Maritza Kucuk and attacks on elderly Armenian women continue, in the evening of January 22, at about 5p.m., 80-year-old Sultan Haykar was attacked. An Armenian woman was beaten at the time she was entering into the building. The assailant was dressed in black and was wearing a mask. The women’s screams were heard by the neighbors and they came to her help, the assailant escaped. Eyewitnesses claim that on the corner 2 people were “following” the actions of the attacker.

Responses to the brutal murder on December 28, of Samata Maritza, who lived alone in Kucuk, are still ongoing. Before she was killed, she was also tortured.

After the latest attack, members of the union rights movement in Turkey “Say no to racism and nationalism” and other public organizations visited the police of Aksaray, talked for an hour with the officials in the police, and then spoke at the press conference.

Chairman of the Istanbul branch of the Union of Human Rights in Turkey Umit Efen said that they are concerned, as occuring one after another attacks are similar to specially organized and carried out actions on the ground of hate. He recalled the style of the attacks: they occur against the elderly, defenseless Armenians.

Speaker of the “Say no to racism and nationalism” movement Cengiz Algan stressed his concern that the attacks on the Armenian women have been organized. He said that they have demanded a meeting with the governor of Istanbul Hussein Avni Mutlu to discuss the mentioned incidents and take preventive measures.