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The controversial construction of luxurious housing where mass graves are located in Siirt causes a commotion among people with family members buried on the site.

Representatives from the bar associations of Diyarbakır, Van, Bingöl and Siirt and from the İHD and TİHV protested the construction near Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey. Police officers tried to block their passage.

After the families of killed PKK members were charged 40,000 lira for the delivery of their bones, they have filed an application with the Court of Cassation.

Waging a legal struggle to take the bones found in a mass grave in Van’s Çatak for 10 years, the families filed a court case. The case has been dismissed, the bones will now given to the Sub-Governor’s Office because the “evidence advance” was not paid.

24 persons who were murdered in Dersim massacre in 1938 have been laid to rest yesterday in the 79th anniversary of the Cabinet decision as to the massacre.

Skulls, bones and clothes belonging to eleven people have been found in a mass grave in Dargeçit (Mardin). Six people who disappeared in police custody in 1995 were supposedly buried in the mass grave.

"The bones of six persons were found in the course of restoration works next to a building belonging to JİTEM" the Human Rights Association announced. The excavation is being conducted in co-operation with the prosecutor's office.

Two German citizens of an international delegation were taken into police custody in Van under allegations of "propaganda for a terrorist organization". The delegation visited Turkey in order to investigate a mass grave of 41 people including sociologist Andrea Wolf.