by Benson Agoha
Coskun Demirkol, ruling party candidate in Turkish local elections scheduled for next month was attacked and killed on Wednesday night, according to media reports.
The attack reportedly took place outside the offices of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the populous Beylikduzu district in Istanbul, Egypt's Ahram Newspaper reported.
Demirkol was running for a place on the district council election on March 30. He was gunned down by an unidentified individuals and died on the spot.
A suspect has reportedly, been arrested by Police.
Suggestions that the attack was poltically inspired has been rejected by a party chief who announced It was not politics-related.
Nevzat Demiroz, the district head said the attack was not politically motivated. Demiroz was quoted as telling the media "The attack has no connection with our party. It is an individual attack."
According to Ahram "Tensions are running high ahead of the local polls, after a graft investigation into top allies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan plunged Turkey into a deep political crisis."
In a similar attack last month, a spokesman for Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) was killed while several others were wounded.
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