U.N. rights boss calls on Turkey to investigate shooting by security forces

United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid bin Ra'ad Al Hussein arrives for a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, February 1, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' top human rights official urged Turkey on Monday to investigate the shooting of unarmed people 10 days ago in its largely Kurdish southeast region and to rein in its security forces.

Southeastern Turkey has seen its worst violence in two decades since a 2-1/2 year ceasefire with militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) collapsed last July, reviving a conflict in which 40,000 people have been killed since 1984.