15 April 2006
Ilyas Aktas
Crossfire
Ilyas Aktas, a young, unpaid journalist with the far-left fortnightly Devrimci Demokrasi (Revolutionary Democracy), shot in the head during clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish protesters in Diyarbakir died.
Aktas, who had been working as the newspaper’s correspondent in the region for two months, was shot while covering a demonstration in support of 14 Kurdish rebels who had been killed a few days earlier by Turkish troops.
The newspaper’s editor, Erdal Guler, said witnesses told him Aktas was hit when police opened fire on the crowd of demonstrators.
