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My maternal uncle Hafız Akdemir was massacred in Diyarbakır 29 years ago today. The only witness to the murder was me, the court did not even ask for my statement. Sentenced to life imprisonment, convict C.Y. is among us.

Before a trustee was appointed to Turkey’s Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakır, the sign of the street named after killed journalist Hafız Akdemir read, “... known for his news on unidentified murders in daily Özgür Gündem, where he was working...”