A Turkish prosecutor has ordered the digging up of several sites where it is believed the bodies of Kurds killed in the 1990s may have been dumped. Hundreds of people disappeared at the height of the fighting in the mainly Kurdish south-east. Human rights lawyers say many were last seen with security forces members. Since the Kurdish conflict, which began in the 1980s when insurgents started fighting for a separate Kurdish state, 40,000 people have been killed.
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