As Turkey gears up for a general election in June, the government has pledged to investigate the fates of the thousands of citizens who vanished during the government’s decades-long crackdown on individuals suspected of aiding Kurdish rebels. But questions persist about how thorough that investigation will be.
It was a typical early summer day in Yuksekova, a town of 60,000 people in Turkey's southeastern corner. The sun was out, the rivers were running fast with snowmelt, and there was a riot on.