Turkey: Justice for Rights Lawyer’s Killing

Click to expand Image Tahir Elçi, the president of Diyarbakir Bar Association and human rights lawyer, speaks to the media shortly before being shot dead in Diyarbakir, Turkey November 28, 2015 . © 2015 IHA agency via AP (Istanbul) – The first hearing of a trial against three police officers charged with the fatal shooting of a Kurdish human rights lawyer, Tahir Elçi, is scheduled for October 21, 2020 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, Human Rights Watch said today. Elçi was a key figure in Turkey’s human rights movement for decades, and then president of the Diyarbakır Bar Association.…

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