The UN has accused Turkey of committing serious human rights violations against the Kurds amid a complete blackout by the Western mainstream media. The UN rights office says it has evidence of mass killings, torture, rape and other serious atrocities during operations against Kurdish militants in the southeast of the country since 2015. According to a damning United Nations report, “massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations committed between July 2015 and December 2016 in southeast Turkey,” has affected 500,000 Kurdish people. In a video secretly recorded inside Sur, once listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, the UN found evidence of torture, destruction, abuse and murder during operations against Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey. Rte.ie reports: “Government security operations” have impacted more than 30 towns and displaced between 335,000 to half a million mostly Kurdish people, the report further added. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984, although violence was contained during the truce agreed in 2013. But fighting resumed when the ceasefire collapsed in summer 2015. Satellite images of areas affected by the latest unrest “indicate an enormous scale of destruction of the housing stock by heavy weaponry”, [...]