JINHA

AMED - Hundreds of people came to take Tahir Elçi's body to Selahattin Ayyubid Research Hospital. His colleagues took his body on their shoulders with banners 'We never forget you'.

Tahir Elçi,Chairman of Diyarbakir Bar Association was killed by police while the Diyarbakır Bar Association lawyers and people were making a statement to draw attention to historical building 'The Four Columns Minare' which has been destroyed by the bullets. The Four Columns Minare. He was shot by a bullet in the head in Sur district of Diyarbakır.

The people in Diyarbakır are in grief and anger and the shopkeepers do not open the shutters today. The people are gathering in front of to Selahattin Ayyubid Research Hospital to take Tahir Elçi's body. Especially his family, his colleagues, the civil society organizations and representatives arrived to hospital.

Head of the Bars arrived to hospital too. Tahir Elçi's colleagues stood side by side with their togs. They have caaried the banners ' Wen ever forget you ' in Kurdish and Turkish.

His colleagues took Tahir Elçi's body on their shoulders and carried him to Kosuyolu Park,Memorial Human Rights for the ceremony.

(şa-tt/gc/fk)