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An expert report released on May 4 and prepared by a team consisting of five experts found it was impossible to determine medically and physically how Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi was shot and killed with the existing data.

An outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant who was identified as one of the suspects that killed two police officers before running down a street just prior to the murder of Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi on Nov. 28, 2015, has been reported to be among those killed in a clash with the security forces in Sur on March 13.

Asylum seekers who have fled conflicts in Iraq and Syria are still not formally recognized as refugees in Turkey, while Yazidis are not afforded equal rights, a new report by the Diyarbak?r Bar Association Children's Rights Center has found.

A delegation from the European Parliament's (EP) Socialist Group, including EU Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri, is set to pay a visit Feb. 19 to the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province, where the clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have been ongoing for months. 

Two family health centers in the Ba?lar district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province will be converted into police posts, the Turkish Doctors' Union (TTB) has said in a report. 

Turkey was shocked Tuesday morning with yet another deadly terrorist attack. As has become a routine application of the advanced Turkish democratic governance authorities immediately clamped a news blackout on the heinous incident. The details of the attack cannot be reported. There are people killed and wounded.

The Justice Ministry is preparing a report for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the situation in southeastern towns where clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) continue to rage under military curfews. 

The struggle against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's southeast will continue, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an vowed on Dec. 17, amid ongoing curfews and clashes in a number of urban areas in the region.

Three policemen, including a ranking officer, were killed on Dec. 15 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the Silvan district of Diyarbak?r amid curfews and clashes in several southeastern provinces.

The November election created a big question in the mind of women's rights NGOs in Turkey. After decades of struggle, the women's liberation movement in Turkey has come to a point of pushing for quotas, 50-50 equal representation in parliament, judicial reforms on domestic violence, etc. Then came the results? Then came the internal fights?