Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV
A day after Turkey arrested two journalists for their report exposing Erdogan’s weapons deliveries to “extremist groups” in Syria, confirming that no dissent to the president’s foreign policy would be allowed, today a new riot has erupted in Istanbul following the dramatic murder in broad daylight of Tahir Elci, the president of the Turkish bar association in southeastern Diyarbakir province, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech.
A campaigner for Kurdish rights, Elci had been criticized for challenging Turkey’s official stance of calling the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a terrorist organization. A Turkish prosecutor last month demanded up to seven and a half years of prison tme for Elci on the grounds of “making propaganda of a terror organization” after remarks he made supporting the PKK.
Just before being gunned down, Elci called for peace & silencing of all guns.
Dört Ayaklı Minare’de yapılan basın açıklaması sırada çıkan çatışmada Tahir Elçi ve 1 polis hayatını kaybetti. https://amp.twimg.com/v/4abb3ecd-72e1-4f1f-b020-edaa39a02658 …
Öldürülen Tahir Elçi, basın açıklamasında: “Savaşlar çatışmalar silahlar operasyonlar bu alandan uzak olsun diyoruz”
Moments later the following shoot out broke out, which claimed the life of Elci who was pronounced dead from gunshots to the head:
The killing which was captured on tape, took place while Tahir Elci was making a statement to the media.
“The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,” Reuters cited Omer Tastan, a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, as saying. “A single bullet struck Elci in the head,” he said, adding that 11 people had also been injured in the incident.
In other words, a hit meant to take out the pro-Kurdish lawyer, staged as an attack by the very people he was defending.
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