assassination in broad day light of her husband

Pro-Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elci, president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association in southeastern Turkey, was a leading human rights defender. He was killed on November 28, 2015, minutes after making a public statement calling attention to damage done to the 1,500-year-old Four-Legged Minaret Mosque by recent crackdown of Turkish security forces at the historical district of Sur in Diyarbakır.

Lawyer and human rights defenders Tahir Elçi (C) was killed minutes after making a statement in Diyarbakır's Sur district on November 28, 2015.

Turkey early elections: Will “ENOUGH” be enough?

When Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, called for snap election on June 24, more than a year ahead of schedule, he was hoping to catch the country’s already fragmented opposition even further off guard. There was no magic formula to make secularists, Turkish nationalists, Kurds, leftists and pious conservative malcontents all unite and time was already […]