the Turkish Human Rights Organisation said that...

the Turkish Human Rights Organisation said that it had identified the body of a Kurdish university student who was killed extra-judicially after his disappearance in 1994 and that it would file complaints against officials then serving in the southeast of the country. The case of Murat Aslan was the first time a person believed to have been the victim of a summary execution was positively identified through DNA testing, said the organisation's branch in Diyarbakir, the region capital of the mainly Kurdish southeast. Thousands of people, mainly Kurdish dissidents, were believed to have been killed extra-judicially in the region during a bitter and heavy military campaign against rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who picked up arms for self-rule in 1984.
Aslan had been missing since 1994 when he was abducted by unknown men in Diyarbakir at the age of 25, and his family failed to find any trace of him for 10 years despite appeals to local officials. But in March last year, his father, Izzettin, came across the confessions of a PKK rebel-turned-informer in a pro-Kurdish newspaper, describing how Aslan had been kidnapped and questioned by paramilitary gendarmerie troops before being killed near the town of Silopi, some 210 kilometres (126 miles) southeast of Diyarbakir. Upon travelling to the region, Izzettin Aslan was told by locals that a body which was burnt after being killed by a bullet to the head had been buried by a local shepherd 10 years ago. An exhumation at the scene produced human bones, which were identified by forensic experts in Istanbul as that of Aslan's through DNA testing.