The prominent co-chairman of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party was targeted by an assassination attempt while traveling in his official vehicle but escaped unharmed, the party said Monday.
Selahattin Demirtas of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was in his armored vehicle in the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir late Sunday when it hit by a single bullet at head height, the party said in a statement.
However AFP reports that the governor's office of the Diyarbakir region denied he had been the target of an assassination attempt or that the car was hit by gunfire.
Demirtas "survived the assassination attempt unharmed thanks to the bullet-proof vehicle (in which) he was riding," the HDP said on its official Twitter feed.
The pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said that neither Demirtas nor his guards had heard a shot being fired but noticed the bullet mark when getting out of the car at the end of the journey.
There was also no indication that any bullet or cartridge had been found at the scene.