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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This is how our “great NATO ally” Turkey under President Erdogan deals with its ‘enemies’.
Turkey can’t get along with anyone these days.
If this goes on any longer, Turkey will become like Russia.
The Turkish military has been known to step in from time to time.
Of course, with the recent dust up with Russia, they have bigger issues.
Perhaps it’s time to put this Turkey in the oven.
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