January 23, 2013 | 16:22
Another elderly Armenian woman was assaulted, on Tuesday evening, in Istanbul’s densely-Armenian-populated Samatya district.
The woman was attacked nearby a local police precinct. The assailant was around 35 years old and he was wearing black clothes.
It is noted that the Armenian woman was severely beaten. As a result, her glasses were broken and its glass caused damage to the woman’s eye; she underwent a surgery on Wednesday morning.
Istanbul Office of the Human Rights Association of Turkey called for a demonstration, on Wednesday at 4pm, against violence taking place on xenophobic grounds.
To note, this is the third such attack against elderly Armenian women in Samatya.