The incitement against the democratic opposition by the AKP-MHP regime repeatedly led to armed attacks on the DEM party. In Kocasinan in the Turkish province of Kayseri, a DEM party campaign vehicle was shot at on Wednesday. Luckily, there were no injuries. The attacker apparently fired at the vehicle from close range in broad daylight. The attacker is said to have been arrested.

Such attacks on the DEM party or its predecessor parties are not uncommon, especially in Turkey. As recently as 5 March, a Turkish fascist attacked the DEM party's election office in Inegöl in Bursa province, smashing the windows and attacking a party member with an axe. At the same time, the Turkish state is making arrests and imprisonments against the democratic opposition, attempting to hinder the election campaign in the run-up to the local elections on March 31 and to render the DEM party unable to act.