Tahir Elçi

The killing of Tahir Elçi, the head of Diyarbak?r Bar Association, in a gun attack Nov. 28 might be an assassination, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said.

"There are two possibilities," he said during a televized speech on Nov. 28. 

"One of them is an assassination," he said, "If there is such a thing, this will be revealed," he said.

Upon the killing of the head of Diyarbak?r Bar Association Tahir Elçi, head of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Metin Feyzio?lu called all heads of bar associations in Turkey to go to Diyarbak?r.

Feyzio?lu himself also departed for Diyarbak?r with the executive board of TBB. He said, "This mean attack was not against our brother Tahir but against the entire Turkey."

A team, including prosecutors and Bar Association board members, was attacked Nov. 28 by guns and bazookas as they were approaching the crime scene, where Diyarbak?r Bar head Tahir Elçi and one policeman were killed earlier in the day. 

A curfew was declared in the southeastern town of Sur, where the Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi was killed early on Nov. 28.

Diyarbat?r Governor's Office said Elçi and one policeman were killed in a gun attack as two officials were wounded.

"This incident shows how righteous is Turkey in its determination in struggle against terrorism," 

Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi was killed on Nov. 28 in the crossfire during an armed clash following a press conference in the Sur district of Diyarbak?r with a group of lawyers.

One policeman was killed and three others were wounded during the armed clash.

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Tahir Elçi, a human rights activist and the head of the Bar Association in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was killed in a gun attack following a press statement on Nov. 28, while two policemen were also killed during a clash just meters away. 

Tahir Elçi, the head of the Bar Association in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r and a human rights activist, was killed in a gun attack following a press meeting, as two policemen were also killed during a clash.

Interor Minister Efkan Ala said in a press meeting that attackers shot at security forces from a car after the press meeting, killing one policeman.

Tahir Elçi, the head of the Bar Association in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was killed in a gun attack following a press meeting, as one policeman was also killed in a clash.

Interor Minister Efkan Ala said in a press meeting that attackers shot at security forces from a car after the press meeting, killing one policeman.

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded up to seven years and six months in jail for Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi on the grounds of "making propaganda of a terror organization," after remarks he made regarding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

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