Tahir Elci: Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Shot Dead During Press Conference in Turkey
29th November 2015
A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist, who faced criminal charges for defending Kurdish rebels as not terrorists, has been shot in the head and killed in Turkey.
Tahir Elci, 49, was caught in a gun battle between police and unidentified gunmen as he delivered a statement calling for an end to violence between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebel group the PKK.
Two policemen were also killed in the shoot-out in Turkey’s south eastern city of Diyarbakir, with another 11 people injured.
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