Protesters chant slogans and raise their arms in front of the human rights association office in Istanbul May 17 during a protest against the shooting last week of the country's leading human rights campaigner. Head of Human rights association Akin Birdal was shot and wounded by two gunmen in his Ankara office last Tuesday. Over a thousand protesters also marched through the streets in Ankara toward the hospital where Birdal is receiving treatment.

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