Ahmet Özmen

Tahir Elçi, the Diyarbakır Bar Association head who was killed in an armed clash in November 2015 in Diyarbakır, was remembered on the anniversary of his murder in Istanbul and the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

A police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old child in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak has been sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison. 

The special operations police officer, Mehmet N.G., was sentenced by the Cizre First Court of Serious Crimes for killing Nihat Kazanhan, Doğan News Agency reported on Nov. 11.

The bar association in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır has received the eighth International Hrant Dink Award, presented on Sept. 22 in a ceremony held at the Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre. 

Tens of thousands march in Diyarbak?r as the city lays to rest lawyer Tahir Elçi following his assassination in unclear circumstancesAround 50,000 people gathered in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r for the funeral ceremony of Tahir Elçi, the Diyarbak?r Bar Association head who was apparently killed during clashes that erupted after the killing of two police officers by gunmen.

A  Turkish court has acquitted eight defendants of all charges related to 21 unsolved murders in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak between 1993 and 1995, sparking outrage among the victims' families and their lawyers.