Conspiracy Theories

摘要

Somewhere under the ground between the south-eastern town of Cizre and the Iraqi border lie scores of corpses of dissident Kurds who disappeared at the height of the 24-year-long separatist rebellion by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (pkk). They were tortured and murdered by counter-insurgency forces that had been given free rein in the battle against the rebels. So go the claims of a former pkk informant, Abdulkadir Aygan, who made headlines this week as he described in gruesome detail a slew of extra-judicial killings allegedly carried out on the orders of the army. A local prosecutor has agreed to investigate the charges after 47 families petitioned him to launch a search for the bodies of relatives who have been missing for years.