Turkey began the search for mass graves of Kurds.

In the south-east Turkey, began excavations at the site of alleged mass graves of Kurds killed by Turkish security forces during operations against the separatists. Heavy equipment and workers with shovels are working near the town of Silopi. According to BBC News, has discovered two human bones and fragments of clothing with traces of blood.
Finds sent for examination. Search for mass grave is made to address the local prosecutor's office, drawing representatives from more than 70 families whose relatives disappeared without trace. According to them, the missing Turkish soldiers were killed and their bodies dumped in pits, wells and other facilities. So far, excavations carried out in five locations in the future, their number may increase.
The suspicions of relatives has also confirmed the unnamed former officer of the Turkish security forces, which is currently in hiding abroad. According to him, torture and execution of Kurdish people have been widely distributed during special operations in the rebel region.
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began fighting for an independent Kurdish state in the 1980's. During the conflict, the peak of which occurred in mid-1990's, were destroyed, thousands of Kurdish settlements, more than 40 thousand people died, hundreds of civilians disappeared without trace.
The head of the PKK Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurds believe that fighter for their rights, and authorities acknowledged the head of a terrorist organization, was arrested by Turkish intelligence in Kenya in 1999. The court sentenced him to death for treason, but later the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Mass demonstrations in support of Ocalan, timed to the tenth anniversary of his arrest, were in the south of Turkey in February 2009. To disperse the police used water cannons and tear gas.
Earlier, the mass graves of Kurds have been in neighboring Iraq, where the long and brutal struggle to maintain their regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein.