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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts) Sat Nov 28, 2015, 07:11 AM Nov 2015

Top pro-Kurdish lawyer shot dead in Turkey's southeast: hospital

Source: AFP

Diyarbakir (Turkey) (AFP) - A top pro-Kurdish lawyer was shot dead Saturday while caught in the crossfire during an armed clash involving the police in Turkey's restive southeast, hospital sources said.

Tahir Elci, head of the bar in southeastern Diyarbakir province and a campaigner for Kurdish rights, died of gunshot wounds to the head, the hospital sources and witnesses told AFP.

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Top pro-Kurdish lawyer shot dead in Turkey's southeast: hospital (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Nov 2015 OP

Where's the outrage? uawchild Nov 2015 #1

it's only Kurds 6chars Nov 2015 #4

+100 Duppers Nov 2015 #6

what rotten luck 6chars Nov 2015 #2

Funny how "luck" works that way, in targeted assassinations villager Nov 2015 #5

The BBC thinks it's more likely he was the target muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #3

uawchild

(2,208 posts)

1. Where's the outrage?

Reply to MowCowWhoHow III (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 08:46 AM

Nov 2015

Our selective media seems to be giving Erdogan and his increasingly Islamist Turkish government a free pass.

Nothing in the main street media about the ISIS oil deals.

Nothing about turning a blind eye to arm shipments to ISIS.

Nothing about his son making millions doing business deals with ISIS.

And I bet this "accidental" shooting of the lawyer will get zero coverage in our evening news also.

6chars

(3,967 posts)

4. it's only Kurds

Reply to uawchild (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 10:30 AM

Nov 2015

msm, progressives, world democracies and dictatorships are all aligned on this one.

Duppers

(28,127 posts)

6. +100

Reply to uawchild (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 03:43 PM

Nov 2015

6chars

(3,967 posts)

2. what rotten luck

Reply to MowCowWhoHow III (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 09:28 AM

Nov 2015

villager

(26,001 posts)

5. Funny how "luck" works that way, in targeted assassinations

Reply to 6chars (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 12:55 PM

Nov 2015

n/t

muriel_volestrangler

(101,392 posts)

3. The BBC thinks it's more likely he was the target

Reply to MowCowWhoHow III (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 10:00 AM

Nov 2015

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34952954

"he was shot by a single bullet to the head which appears to be a targeted killing" - in the commentary on the video there.

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