THE WATCH FOR TAHİR ELÇİ Lawyers affiliated with the Diyarbakır Bar Association have been holding a “Justice Watch” since their president Tahir Elçi was murdered on November 28, 2015. The lawyers have been gathering in front of the Diyarbakır Courthouse every Friday at 1:30 PM to demand the perpetrators who killed Elçi to be found and brought to justice. Here, lawyers and representatives of various NGOs started to articulate the problems they faced. The Watch, which was supported by lawyers The Justice Watch arranged from other provinces from time to time, last took in a different city monthly. On the 4th year Commemoration place on March 6, 2020, before being interrupted in of Tahir Elçi’s murder in its 218th week due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 Diyarbakır organized by 18 pandemic. This makes it the second longest act of Bar associations. November civil disobedience in Turkey following the Saturday 29 th 2019. Mothers’ weekly vigil. The Tahir Elçi Watch organized by Diyarbakır Bar association on June 28 th 2018 THE ONE-PERSON WATCH In response to the arrest of lawyers affiliated with the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) and Peoples’ Law Bureau (HHB) (see page 19), another watch for justice began in front of Çağlayan Courthouse. After the defendants of the case were released and then subsequently re-arrested on September 15, 2018, lawyer Didem Ünsal started a “Justice Watch” in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse. Ünsal is the wife of detained lawyer Aytaç Ünsal, and herself a defendant in the case for which she had been detained for a period of time. Claiming that the trial was illegitimate, Ünsal protested every Thursday between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM by herself in front of the courthouse, for which she was taken into custody then released several times. On February 3, 2020, detained lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who were defendants in the same case, launched a hunger strike that turned into a death fast on April 5, 2020. Once the Forensic Medicine Institute reported that Timtik and Ünsal were unable to stay in prison, they were hospitalized on July 30, 2020.111 111 Lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal not released (31.07.2020; Lawyers for Lawyers): https://lawyersforlawyers.org/ lawyers-ebru-timtik-and-aytac-unsal-not-released/ 50 A DEFENSELESS DEFENSE T H E O N E - P E R S O N WAT C H 51