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DIYARBAKIR BAR ASSOCIATION DIYARBAKIR BAR ASSOCIATION
LAWYERS’ RIGHTS CENTER LAWYERS’ RIGHTS CENTER

SUMMARY

This report was issued on the basis of the violations against our colleagues who
worked as lawyers in Diyarbakır Bar Association and the investigations and
prosecutions against the lawyers. The lawyers who worked on the report and work
at Diyarbakır Bar Association Lawyers’ Rights Center, interviewed 52 lawyers who
were investigated and prosecuted, vis- a- vis or on the phone. The names of the
lawyers which interviewed in the criminal cases and mentioned in the report were
not published upon their requests. However, the names of our colleagues and
documents of investigation or case files are available in the records of the Diyarbakır
Bar Association Lawyers’ Rights Center. While preparing this report, the police
statement records, indictments, case files, hearing records and court decisions of our
colleagues were examined.

The report includes a chronology regarding the murder of the President our Bar
Association Tahir Elçi, investigations and prosecutions against the current and previous
Bar Association Presidents and Board Members, prosecutions against our former Bar
Association Presidents and colleagues for alleged participation in the activities of
the Democratic Society Congress (Demokratik Toplum Kongresi /DTK) , initiated at
different times by the Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa Chief Prosecutor’s Office and data on
the investigations in which many of our colleagues were detained. Also summary
information and statistics regarding the investigations initiated against our colleagues
are included, finally, our observations regarding the illegality of the investigations and
prosecutions against our colleagues are included.

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