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Leading Turkish human rights lawyer assassinated

PUBLISHED December 2, 2015
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A Turkish human rights lawyer who was last month the subject of a Law Society intervention has been shot dead. Tahir Elci (pictured), president of the bar association in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, was killed after making a speech calling for peace between security forces and Kurdish separatists, news agencies reported. 

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