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The Turkish journalist Erk Acarer, who is critical of the government and lives in exile in Berlin, claims to have been attacked and injured in his apartment.
Acarer wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the perpetrators attacked him with fists and knives.
He also published a picture that apparently shows him shortly after the attack.
The police confirmed the attack on the journalist but did not provide any further details.
There is no mortal danger, wrote Acarer in another tweet.
“I know the perpetrators.
I will never surrender to fascism. "
According to the "Reporters Without Borders" organization, the well-known journalist was repeatedly threatened because of his critical reporting in Turkey.
He came to Berlin in April 2017 thanks to an emergency grant.
The Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who also lives in German exile, rated the attack as a "direct message" from the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who wanted to make it clear that Turkey could "attack a journalist critical of the regime even in Berlin."
The journalist Meşale Tolu, who was in custody in Turkey for several months in 2017, also condemned the attack.
»So many people seek protection in Germany and are then exposed to aggressive violence here too.
This has to come to an end, ”she wrote on Twitter.
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