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Turkey's prime minister has said the pistol found next to the dead body of Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer who was killed during clashes after the killing of two police officers in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was the same weapon used in the first incident.

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.

Turkish police detained 11 people on suspicions of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in simultaneous raids in three provinces across the country on Nov. 23.

A Turkish police officer who was heavily wounded during a security operation in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on Nov. 5 has succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

The deputy police commissioner, Enis K?r?ml?, could not be saved despite all efforts, sources at Dicle University's Medical Faculty Hospital said Nov. 22.

A curfew ended in Yüksekova in the southeastern province of Hakkari at 6 a.m. on Nov. 23, according to the Hakkari Governor's Office.

A curfew was declared on Nov. 20 from 8 p.m. in the region, "due to escalating terror events, in order to reassure peace and security."

Turkish police said on Nov. 23 that damage to the car of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? was not caused by gunfire, after a party spokesman said it had been hit by a bullet in an apparent assassination attempt. 

A spokesperson for the HDP had said the car's rear window was hit on Nov. 22 as he drove in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? was targeted by an assassination attempt while travelling in his official vehicle but escaped unharmed, the HDP said Nov. 23.
  
Demirta? was in an armored vehicle in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late on Nov. 22 when it was hit by a single bullet at head height, the party said in a statement.