DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Eight men arrested over the killing of 44 people at a wedding were all members of state-backed "Village Guard" units set up to help combat Kurdish separatists in Turkey's southeast, officials said on Wednesday.
The involvement of village guards in the worst mass killing in modern Turkish history raises pressure on the EU-candidate country to rein in the heavily armed units.
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