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On 30 July 2021, a man entered the premises of the property of the Dedeoğulları family, then first spoke to them and later shot them. Video surveillance shows the murderer attempting to set the house ablaze, getting into his car and driving away afterwards. Four of the victims were women, three men.
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Mehmet Altun has admitted to have killed the family members. He has also admitted to have attempted to set the house ablaze, in order to erase the recordings of the security camera. Twenty-one bullets were found in the bodies of the family. Six members of the family died of shots in the head while
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and had lived for twenty-four years in Meram, Konya. The family was threatened before and attacked in front of their home in May 2021. In the attack in May, several family members needed medical assistance, one man received a wound on the head which required twenty stitches, another member of the
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one died of a bullet in the neck. Against a journalist reporting on the murders for JinNews, an investigation was initiated due to her social media posts.
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who was covering the massacre, was accused of writing a "pro-terrorist story" by a Konya-based newspaper.
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for creating the environment for such racist attacks. An angered member of a
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736:"CİK: Mazlum ve imanlı Kürtlerin yanında safa durma zamanı"
663:"10 Arrested in Turkey in Deaths of 7 from Kurdish Family"
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