Afrika news paper says demonstrators ‘came to kill’ on orders from above

Following the violent protests at the office of Turkish Cypriot daily, Afrika on Monday, the news paper in it's Tuesday's headline, alleged the demonstrators “came to kill” heeding “orders from a high place.”

On the orders of Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday, a Sivas Madimak exercise took place against our newspaper Afrika,” the daily read.

They hit, broke and called for the place to be lit up in flames. The police just watched. Our politicians stayed silent to this historic lynching attempt, it added.

The news paper was referring to the Sivas massacre which was an arson attack on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Turkish city’s Madimak Hotel staged by radical Islamists that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel workers.

Monday’s violent protests against the news paper was sparked by Afrika’s Sunday headline which accused Turkey of launching another invasion in Syria’s Afrin region.

Demonstrators who were holding Turkish and ‘TRNC’ flags, chanted slogans in support of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan while some threw stones and eggs at the building, breaking windows and tried to enter the newspaper office, forcing those inside to barricade themselves.

Two other flag-waving protesters also managed to climb on top of the ‘TRNC parliament’ roof.

Leaders in TRNC have all criticized Monday's event and highlighted a lack of security in the country.