MARDİN - Scores of human bones were found in a cave in Dargeçit (Mardin).

 

The bones are believed to belong to people who were forcibly disappeared and killed by JITEM in the 90s. In the images taken by villager Irfan Yakut, who lives in Altınoluk, human limbs and skulls are clearly identifiable. 

 

Yakut is the son of Yahya Yakut, who was abducted and murdered by JİTEM in 1993. Stating that he is very sensitive to the issue of the disappeared people being the son of a victim of the so called murders carried out by unknown people, Yakut said: “The area where the bones were located is a cave in the the hamlet of Gulbiş, near my village. I went there and took pictures because I knew about the bones being there. I counted at least 30 skulls. I think these belonged to people abducted in the 90s because similar mass graves were found in Dargeçit before."

 

Yakut said that he had filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutor's office after finding the bones.