Posted on 11/28/2015 5:41:14 AM PST by McGruff
A Turkish official says a prominent lawyer, who faced a prison term on charges of supporting Turkey's Kurdish rebels, has been killed in attack.
Firat Anli, mayor of Diyarbakir city, said Tahir Elci was shot on Saturday while he was making a press statement.
Elci, the head of the bar association in the mainly Kurdish city, was detained last month for saying during a live news program that the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is not a terrorist organization.
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You’re just full of good news today :)
What ever was left of democracy there died when Ergoden was elected.
You get what you ask for.
They are no ally but snakes in the grass.
He was left handed and they found him in a park with the gun in his right hand, it was suicide, he he he he he he he.............well it could have went the other way, a victim of a plane crash with a bullet hole to the head
It looks like maybe the Turks are starting to read Shakespeare.
Sh** happens
“You’re just full of good news today”
Hey, it’s still morning here.
In a video clip of the incident taken by the Dogan News Agency, men hiding behind the minaret of a nearby mosque started firing at Elci and people standing with him.
Guns in a mosque? No way !
“The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,” a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, Omer Tastan, told Reuters.
“A single bullet struck Elci in the head,” he said, adding that 11 people had also been injured in the incident.
Someone must have videoed the incident.
Should be an interesting news day :)
Started off with a bang. No pun intended.
“You get what you ask for.”.........
We got odumbo and most of us didn’t ask for him either.
One down.....10 Million more to go....
It sounds like this guy was pro-Kurds. That would make him one of the good guys, I’d think.
“Yesterday I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don’t know. But thats irrelephant’’. Now what’s a lawyer doing inside a turkey? Skip it, I don’t want to know. Sorry. The Marx Brothers were on out here this morning.
Erdogan would carry out a genocide against the Kurds if he thought he could get away with it.
He’s starting small.
Turkey has never been a democracy
Elci, the head of the bar association in the mainly Kurdish city, was detained last month for saying during a live news program that the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is not a terrorist organization.
and therefore, Elci and the PKK were not oppressed, and not eligible for Obama's support or protection.
Or committing suicide at the stop sign with a fully auto firearm and putting multiple holes in oneself.
William 7 minutes ago
Police firing teargas and fire hoses at demonstrators protesting against killing of Tahir #Elci
Not even a peep of this on CNN.
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