Agos is out with a headline in Kurdish in memory of Tahir Elçi
People who are closely acquainted with Tahir Elçi (Meral Danış Beştaş, Mehmet Emin Aktar, Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Ferhat Encü, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Orhan Gazi Ertekin, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Emma Sinclair Webb, Emel Kurma, Özlem Dalkıran, Nalan Erkem and Ara Sarafian) wrote about him for Agos.
Chair of Diyarbakir Bar Association Tahir Elçi was shot dead after a press statement that he made in Sur province of Diyarbakir. Tahir Elçi was the lawyer of the victims of extrajudicial executions, murders by unidentified assailant and burnt villages. He also attended the hearings of Hrant Dink case in İstanbul.
The statements he made on a TV show made him a target like Hrant Dink. It has been days since the murder happened and there are footages showing the crime scene, but the case is still in shadows.
People who are closely acquainted with Tahir Elçi (Meral Danış Beştaş, Mehmet Emin Aktar, Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Ferhat Encü, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Orhan Gazi Ertekin, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Emma Sinclair Webb, Emel Kurma, Özlem Dalkıran, Nalan Erkem and Ara Sarafian) wrote about him for Agos.
