[3] Tahir Elçi, the then president of the Bar Association was murdered while making a peace declaration for the Kurdish-Turkish conflict on the 28 November 2015.
[4][5] He was murdered after a prosecutor demanded 7.5 years imprisonment for having declared that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is not a terror organization on the 14 October 2015.
[6] The Diyarbakır Bar Association itself also received intimidating phone calls and messages but as its members approached the prosecutor asking for protection, their demands were denied.
[7] The Bar Association was investigated for its criticism over the prohibition of pronouncing Kurdistan in theTurkish Grand National Assembly.
Ahmet Özmen, the former head of the Bar Association as well as several members of the board are prosecuted according to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.