Tahir Elçi, lawyer and president of Amed Bar Association, was murdered in Amed four years ago. Today, hundreds of lawyers gathered in front of the Diyarbakır Courthouse and marched to the Four-legged Minaret, a historic structure in the district of Sur where the deadly shots were fired at Elçi on 28 November 2015. They carried a banner with the inscription "Em te ji bîr nakin – Seni Unutmayacağız” [We won't forget you].

The commemoration ceremony, organized by Amed Bar Association and the Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation, was attended by HDP MPs Berdan Öztürk, Ebru Günay, Saliha Aydeniz and Meral Danış Beştaş, CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu and the presidents of the Bar Associations of Ankara, Bursa, Aydın, Antalya and 25 other cities in Kurdistan.

In a speech in memory of Tahir Elçi, Cihan Aydın, chairman of the Amed Bar Association, pointed out the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, efforts to cover up unidentified murders through the cooperation of the administration and judiciary, attempts to make the war an integral part of public life and the Turkish invasion of northern Syria.

Tahir Elçi's wife Türkan Elçi read an emotional letter she wrote to her husband.

Carnations were then laid down at the minaret.

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