The initial report by the Mezopotamya news agency, published late Sunday night, quoted named Bariş Çakan’s family as saying the young man had been sitting in a park with his friend when he was targeted because of the Kurdish music they were listening to at the time.

Çakan’s cousin was quoted by the agency as saying that other members of the family had been targeted for listening to Kurdish music before.

The police have since detained three suspects.

A statement by the Ankara Governorate disputed the reports and said the claims aimed to provoke tension.

The incident happened “when the deceased and his friend warned the suspects because they were listening to loud music in a car and disturbing the neighbors during evening prayers, contrary to the claims,” the governorate said.

“(Some people) are hostile to everything about Kurds! This hostility will be what ends you. You are fascists!” Kurdish parliamentarian Remziye Tosun said in a tweet on Sunday, based on the initial reports.

“Are you happy now, Suleyman Soylu?” another Kurdish parliamentarian, Huseyin Kaçmaz, asked Turkey’s interior minister in a tweet, to which Soylu’s adviser Burak Gultekin responded.

Supporting the governorate’s statement, Gultekin said the fight had broken out over loud music from a car, and had nothing to do with the language of the music.

“Related authorities will press charges against you for openly inciting hatred and animosity,” Gultekin said.

"Those who put forth this claim are provocateurs who have abused this issue for years," Interior Ministry Spokesman Ismail Çataklı said in a statement.

The same cousin, Dogan Çakan, later told left-wing newspaper Evrensel that the young man had been preparing for his evening prayers when a friend called him downstairs, and that the incident had nothing to do with Kurdish music.

“I don’t know why he went. But when they went there, his friend apparently warned some people in a car, for playing loud music. Then the people in the car attacked them,” Dogan Çakan told Evrensel.

Kurds in Turkey, the country’s largest ethnic minority, representing around 20 percent of the population, have for decades been denied basic rights including education in their mother tongue by governments that viewed expressions of Kurdish identity as a threat. Several Turkish citizens have been targeted in hate crimes for speaking Kurdish.

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