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Turkey must investigate this massacre to build Kurdish trust | Fazel Hawramy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Turkey must investigate this massacre to build Kurdish trust

Truck carries the dead bodies of Kurdish villagers after a Turkish army attack
A truck carries the bodies of dead Kurdish villagers after a Turkish army attack near Uludere, in Şırnak province in December. Photograph: Enn/AFP/Getty Images

A group of Kurdish schoolchildren and young villagers were transporting cheap fuel into Turkey from Iraq on 28 December. Some time after 9.30pm, as the group reached the border area, four Turkish F-16 fighter jets launched an attack and within an hour, 34 members of the group, including 17 children, were dead.

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