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Levent Gok, member of the leading Turkish opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), applied to the Human Rights Committee of Parliament demanding to set up a working group to investigate the attacks on Armenian women in Istanbul’s Samatya district, Turkish news agency T24 reported. 

“2 out of 5 Armenians were killed, 3 were injured in those attacks, which endanger the peaceful coexistence of the two nations,” the application said, adding that these might be religion-based or ethnic crimes.

A number of attacks were committed against elderly Armenian women in their homes in Samatya district of Istanbul, Turkey, over the past few months, one of which resulted in a death. The first attack in the past few months was on Nov. 1, 2012. A woman named Gonul A. was beaten by an intruder, and her valuables were stolen. On Nov. 28, Tuivat A. (87) was attacked inside her house. She lost one eye in the attack and her valuables were also taken. On Dec. 28, Maritsa Kucuk (85) was brutally murdered in her house, where she lived alone. In the fifth attack, Sultan Aykar (80) was stabbed as she entered her house.