"Turkey questions actions of security forces in fight against PKK members
Sunday, January 30, 2005
The head of IHD branch office in Diyarbakir, Selahattin Demirtas, says some 300 people remained missing in the mainly-Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
JAMES C. HELICKE
Diyarbakir - AP
For more than a decade, Aydin Demir petitioned Turkish authorities to be told the fate of his brother.
Then one day in November, villagers uncovered soiled clothing and what appeared to be the remains of the brother and 10 other Kurds, last seen when they were detained by the military, in a mass grave at the bed of a creek outside his village.
What happened next signaled a small but important shift - driven largely by the nation's bid to join the European Union - in the government's relations with its formidable military, which had long enjoyed free rein in its battle against outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members."
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