The Dedeogullari family were shot dead and their home was torched a week after they had been set upon by 60 Turkish nationalists in a brutal attack in which they were told: “We will not let you live here.”

That attack came as Kurds described living in fear and the HDP warned the international community of a spike in racist attacks across Turkey and, in particular, Afyon, Ankara and Konya provinces.

“We shared our concerns that if the government does not stop its criminalizing smear campaigns and incessant hate speech against the HDP and against the Kurds in general, and if they fail to prosecute the perpetrators effectively, many more bloody attacks are likely to happen, Morning Star reported.

“Sadly, our fears are already being realized, and, this time, seven people, including three women, have been killed,” HDP foreign affairs spokespersons Feleknas Uca and Hisyar Ozsoy said.

The HDP said that the racist attacks would become more violent, and held the government fully responsible due to its criminalization of the Kurdish community.

“[The attacks] are accompanied by continued arrests of our party members and the closure case against our party,” it said in a statement.

Party worker Deniz Poyraz was shot dead in the HDP’s Izmir offices last month.

The suspected killer is a Turkish nationalist believed to have fought alongside jihadist groups in northern Syria.

The Kurdish People’s Assembly, the largest representative body of Kurds in Britain, described the latest attack as “fascism in action” and said it would continue to fight for peace and freedom across the Middle East.

British-based organization Peace in Kurdistan urged the government to act and review its “toxic relationship” with Turkey, halting all arms sales.

Labour MP Kate Osamor said: “The international silence should end immediately and international leaders should take action against [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.”

The HDP called for members of the international community to raise their voices and demand an end to speeches and actions by the Turkish government that fuel this anti-HDP and anti-Kurdish racism.

Attacks on Kurds have also intensified in diaspora communities across Europe. Last year Kurdish women in Vienna were targeted by the notorious Grey Wolves, a far-right organization linked to Erdogan’s junior coalition partner’s the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

And the Morning Star reported on an attack by Turkish nationalists in Cardiff last week that left Kurdish author Gokhan Yavuzel unconscious. His name had recently appeared on a hit list targeting critics of Erdogan abroad.

Earlier this month the Kurdistan Communities Union claimed that a secretive unit involving members of the MHP and Turkish intelligence was co-ordinating attacks on Kurds.

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