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Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV

November 28, 2015

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.

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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 …

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Öldürülen Tahir Elçi, basın açıklamasında: “Savaşlar çatışmalar silahlar operasyonlar bu alandan uzak olsun diyoruz”

6:25 AM – 28 Nov 2015

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.

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…

Turkey indicts Dutch reporter over ‘terror propaganda’

February 3, 2015

Turkey indicts Dutch reporter over ‘terror propaganda’

Geerdink, who rejects charges, is indicted for making “terrorist propaganda” in social media and her opinion articles.

A Dutch journalist based in southeastern Turkey has been officially indicted by Turkish prosecutors for spreading “terrorist propaganda” on social media.

Frederike Geerdink, who rejected the charges, told Al Jazeera that she received an indictment notice from the prosecutor’s office in Diyarbakir, the city she is based in, adding that the document charges her with crimes committed between September 10 and October 28.

“The document refers to tweets and Facebook posts as well as her weekly column on Diken.com.tr, an independent Turkish news website,” she said.

The Prosecutor’s office charges Geerdink with spreading propaganda for the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group that has been fighting against the Turkish state since mid-1980s. She is facing one to five years in prison.

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