For example, suspects no longer have access to lawyers for the first 24 hours of their detention a change which gives free rein to torturers, according to Tahir Elci, a human-rights advocate in Diyarbakir.The EU's moral power to oppose such measures is waning; polls suggest that support for EU entry has dipped to half the electorate from three-quarters only a year ago.
"From now on, many cases will be dropped," said Tahir Elci, the chairman of the local bar association who has spent years pursuing such cases.
In November, when Tahir Elci, head of the Diyarbakir Bar Association and a prominent peace activist, visited Sur to warn about damage to crucial heritage structures, he was shot in the head and killed during a firefight that erupted during his press conference.
Another video shows plainclothes police shooting at two men running in the direction where Elci was believed to be.
For street food, brothers Koral and Onur Elci opened Focacceria Bonassola earlier this year close to Altona station– just looking at the golden foccacia with spinach, gorgonzola or spicy salsiccia is a sensual experience.
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.
Elci, who died after speaking to journalists, was facing trial for saying the banned Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) was not a terrorist organisation, as the government describes it.
"Certainly it is a step of maximum importance for Turkey to sign these conventions," Serafettin Elci, a Kurdish political leader and former government minister, said.
Elci's brother Ahmet was convinced that the lawyer had been a target: "My brother is not our first martyr and neither will he be the last," he said at the funeral.
