The investigation on the killing of Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairman Tahir Elçi was completed five years after his death. The indictment involves four defendants, three of them police officers, as suspects and claims that there was no camera overseeing the moment of Elçi being shot, that no crime scene investigation could be made due to security reasons and that the bullet killing Elçi could not be found. Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairman Cihan Aydın reacted against the indictment and said, “It seems that the truth will be covered once again and the true perpetrators will remain unpunished.”
Imprisonment sentences were claimed against police officer M.B., who was previously dismiss, as well as S.T. and F.T., who still actively work, due to “causing death due to culpable negligence” after the expert report prepared in the U.K. identified them to have fired their guns on the same street as Elçi was shot. There is an ongoing warrant against another suspect, Uğur Yakışır, with an imprisonment claim up to heavy life imprisonment due to “willful homicide, homicide with eventual intent, violating the Law No. 6136, disrupting the unity and the territorial integrity of the state, damaging property.”
27.03.2020
dw.com