ISTANBUL. – There are no arrests so far in connection with the attacks, ever since December 2012, against the elderly Armenian women in Istanbul’s densely-Armenian-populated Samatya district. Istanbul’s Agos Armenian weekly’s Armenian section editor Sarkis Seropyan told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.   

He noted that they submitted inquiries to the law enforcement agencies, and the latter’s investigation concluded that these misdemeanors were not planned actions against Armenians, but rather random cases of burglary. Seropyan added, however, that the majority of the people have suspicions and concerns that these actions were directed against the Armenians.     

The Agos editor informed that, at present, the Armenians living in Samatya district are concerned and the elderly are afraid to go out alone. Also, he noted that the situation in Samatya is somewhat tense, and the police are patrolling the district.   

Sarkis Seropyan added that they will be unrelenting in this matter and everything must be done to arrest the criminals.