The incident reportedly happened as Mihrac Miroglu was riding his bike. Miroglu's family said they did not know how the incident happened, but the armored police vehicles were moving very fast when they were patrolling the streets.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) later released a statement on its social media account, saying the deaths caused by security forces cannot be named as mere “accident,” but are “massacre.” “How many times have children, women, old people been massacred? Enough already!” said the HDP.

HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan said that the incident was the result of “a policy of impunity” granted to security forces by the current rulership.

“The rulership's policies of impunity has taken the life of a one more seven-year-old child playing on the street. These deaths that occur in city centers, living spaces are never accidents, but murder. Those who are responsible must be prosecuted,” Buldan wrote on Twitter, sharing the widely circulated hashtag of #MihraçMiroğlu, referring to the killed boy's name.

HDP MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu has taken the boy's death to the agenda of parliament, asking Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in a parliamentary question if the police riding the relevant armored vehicle were still on their duty.

“Has there an investigation been launched into the police officer riding the vehicle? Is the police officer still on duty?” Gergerlioglu asked.

The HDP MP also asked why it is mostly in Kurdish-majority provinces that such deaths by armored police vehicles occur. He inquired about the number of citizens who lost their lives after being hit by armored vehicles in the last 10 years with a breakdown of their provinces and also how many of those relevant police officers were still on duty.

“This and such deaths are unfortunately not a first. We do not see such incidents as a mere accident. The main reason is the rulership's policies and security-based implementations that it has been running in Kurdish cities,” Gergerlioglu said.

An official statement has been yet released with regards to the boy's death.

Fourteen bar associations from southeastern Turkey released a joint statement in condemnation of the boy's death, calling for an "unbiased and effective investigation" into the incident.

Saying that such deaths should not be "normalized," the bar associations demanded that the Parliamentary Commission for Investigating Human Rights establish a sub-commission for the investigation of deaths caused by armored vehicles.

According to a report prepared by the Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD), armored vehicles caused the death of 36 people -- including 16 children and six women -- in a total of 63 accidents in the last 10 years. Also, 85 people were injured in these incidents.

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