On October 3, an armed attack was carried out against the central office of the Democratic Society Party( DTP ) in Ankara. The attacker passed the street behind the building with his car. He shot one time and shouted „traitors!“. The bullet hit the water pipe of the neighbour building. In the morning of the same day a bomb warning was made for the administrations centre of the newspaper Gundem located at Beyoglu, Istanbul. The fascist who was arrested for the reason of having shot at the central office of the DTP was taken to court on October 4 under the pretext that he „owns an arm without any license“ and „shot in the air and threatened the general security“. However, the attacker was released by the court. In a statement he made to journalists he said: „Me as a Turkish nationalists showed a symbolic reaction. I did not have the aim to harm or injure anyone.“ The attack was carried out after the speech of the chief of general staff Yasar Buyukanit in which he showed the DTP as target. In his speech at the opening of the War Academies Buyukanit had drawn attention to different speeches and statements of the DTP deputies and had called the judiciary to start acting. Leaders of the DTP`s central office also made a statement concerning the attack and stressed the analogy between the statements of the general staff and the prime minister as well as the attack itself. Some local organisations of the DTP also made statements and said: „Despite all signs fueling to attack us, all threats and attacks we will not diverge from democracy, freedom and the democratic unity of the people.“ On the same day, the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) made a written statement in which it emphasized the attack on a minivan in Beytussebap and the bombings in Izmir and said that the National Security Council ( MGK ) and the army try to create a reactionary civil war atmosphere within society. The ESP called for a united struggle against the dirty war policy.