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The autopsy report states that Poyraz was struck by several bullets coming from a firearm. According to
Mezapotamya, Gencer spoke to two people over the mobile phone, before surrendering. Deniz Poyraz father was prosecuted for terror propaganda for having compared his daughter to the Kurds killed by Turkish security forces and said that she was a “martyr” of all Kurds.
95:, the family's home was several times raided. The family eventually returned to Izmir when Deniz was twelve years of age. In Izmir, she worked in the textile industry and as a secretary for some time. At the time of the attack she volunteered in the HDP building, covering a shift for her mother who had undergone hand surgery.
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Cemetery Directorate in Tepecik, Poyraz' coffin, followed by crowds was brought to the house of Poyraz' family in the Bağkuyu neighbourhood. From there the procession headed to the Kadifekale Mosque in which the funeral ceremony was held. Later the same day, she was buried in the cemetery in
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Forensic Medicine Institution for the autopsy and from there to the Cemetery Directorate in Tepecik.
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The first hearing of the case was in
December 2021. In the fifth hearing which was adjourned, the gendarmery slapped a brother of the victim and the police used tear gas to calm the crowds at the hearing. In the final hearing in December 2022, the assailant was sentenced to life imprisonment. The
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304:(MHP) instead called for an investigation as to whether the PKK was responsible for the attack and deemed the victim a terrorist responsible for the recruitment of PKK militants. EU Ambassador to Turkey
115:. According to Kemalbay, the assault took place while the police was outside the party headquarters. Before the assailant killed Poyraz, he attempted to set the building on fire.
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660:"An armed assailant stormed the HDP building in Izmir and killed a woman employee"
633:"Those who know Deniz Poyraz talk about her: There was no one who didn't love her"
945:"Mentality behind attack on HDP office same that seeks party's closure: co-chair"
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Deniz Poyraz was born in 1983 in İzmir as the eldest of nine siblings to a
581:"Assailant: 'I enrolled in an English course, carried out reconnaissance'"
519:"Erdoğan says pro-Kurdish HDP's lawmakers, not supporters, are terrorists"
467:"Questions waiting to be answered about Deniz Poyraz's killer Onur Gencer"
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358:"Attack on HDP İzmir office: Party worker Deniz Poyraz killed"
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1173:"Erdoğan condemns deadly attack on HDP office - Turkey News"
718:"Turkey: Woman killed in attack on pro-Kurdish party office"
688:"Man storms Pro-Kurdish party office in Turkey, kills woman"
385:"Crime scene report on the attack against HDP İzmir office"
252:(AKP) for the attack on their party building. HDP co-chair
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892:"Deniz Poyraz laid to rest on the shoulders of the women"
1098:"Gunman attacks Turkey's pro-Kurdish party, killing one"
27:(HDP) was killed in the provincial seat of the party in
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on which he is seen carrying weapons while being in
805:"Assailant of İzmir HDP building trained in Syria!"
1126:"Gunman attacks HDP office and kills Deniz Poyraz"
860:"Sedat Peker'den HDP saldırısına ilişkin açıklama"
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186:. The HDP party co-chairs
153:Nationalist Movement Party
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286:Republican People's Party
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45:Kurdistan Workers' Party
1313:2021 murders in Turkey
306:Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut
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270:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
171:deep state in Turkey
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322:satirical magazines
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