Thousands gather for funeral of top Kurdish lawyer
"Thousands gathered for the funeral of Tahir Elci, a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist gunned down on Saturday in a southern eastern city at the center of months of violence.
The funerals for the two policemen killed in the attack in Diyarbakir also took place.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday the gun found next to Elci's body was the same weapon used in the attack on the police officers. He vowed to catch the killers.
Police surveillance camera footage released on Saturday showed policemen being shot at from inside a cab, falling onto the ground before the passengers ran on. Another video shows plain clothed police shooting at two men running in the direction Elci was believed to be standing.
Elci, who was shot after speaking to journalists, was facing trial for saying the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was not a terrorist organization, as the government describes it. He had, however, denounced PKK violence.
Hundreds of people have been killed since a ceasefire between the PKK and Turkish security forces collapsed in July, reigniting a conflict in which some 40,000 people have died since it began in 1984.
Elci's killing was likely to fuel further unrest in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/29/us-turkey-kurds-lawyer-idUSKBN0TI0HB20151129#PFpsgGDBwQqUoWo1.97
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A increasingly Islamist Turkey, a NATO ally, doing political assassinations of an outspoken dissident -- where's the outrage?
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Also cracks down on the opposition press and prefers ISIS to the PKK.
A good ally.
