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Tahir Elci, head of the bar association in Diyarbakir, was shot head in Southeast Turkey, after unknown attackers opened fire on gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir.

According to witnesses, the unknown assailants shot at Tahir Elci, and 40 other activists as they were giving press statement near a mosque in the city's Sur district. The police immediately returned fire, they said.