Police on trial for Kurd attack
Two military police officers have gone on trial in Turkey charged with an attack on a shop owned by a supporter of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). One man was killed and another injured in the grenade attack last November in Semdinli, near the Iraqi border. The prosecution says the officers were part of an execution squad, set up to target suspected insurgents. No senior military figure in Turkey has ever been prosecuted for human rights abuses against the Kurds. Full Story