Five held in probe over allegations of extrajudicial killings in Turkey
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Turkish police detained five people after human bones were unearthed as part of an investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings, news agencies reported Tuesday.
The detained include two sons of the former mayor of Cizre town, Kamil Atak, in Sirnak province, as well as three residents of a southeastern village near where nearly 20 bone fragments were unearthed Monday, a judiciary source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
The state-run Anatolian Agency reported that the detainments came on the testimony of an anonymous witness who said that some people were detained by Atak on the claims they provided support to the PKK and were handed to the terror organization Turkish Hezbollah for interrogation, the report said.
An investigation was launched after Abdulkadir Aygan, a former informant from the terror organization PKK said many people were murdered by anti-terrorism squads in the 1990s and buried in wells after being dipped in acid baths.
Excavations started under the investigation at two different sites in Silopi that produced several bone fragments, including pieces of a human skull, clothing and human hair.