Thousands of people have gathered for the funeral of Tahir Elci, a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist gunned down in Diyarbakır, which has been at the centre of months of violence.
Funerals were also held for the two policemen killed in the attack on Saturday.
The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, said on Sunday the gun found next to Elci’s body was the same weapon used in the attack on the police officers, as he vowed to catch the killers.
But Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic party (HDP), cast doubt on whether those responsible would be exposed.
“Our scepticism is fair as so many similar sufferings have taken place on our land in this past,” he said at the funeral. “We were never able to say goodbye to them with our minds at ease thinking those responsible will be caught.”
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