ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Wednesday it would re-open an investigation into the deaths of 33 Kurdish villagers killed in an air strike 19 years ago, after the European Court of Human Rights found that government forces had carried out the attack.
The international court in Strasbourg on Tuesday rejected Turkey's claim that the villagers had been killed by armed rebels and said Turkish authorities had failed to investigate the incident effectively.
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