Victims of Turkey's Kurdish militant conflict long for peace


Cihan Sincar, former mayor of Kiziltepe and widow of the late pro-Kurdish party lawmaker Mehmet Sincar, visits her husband's grave in the southeastern town of Kiziltepe in Mardin province, Turkey, March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination - one of hundreds of political killings at the height of the conflict.

Mehmet Sincar, one of Turkey's first pro-Kurdish party lawmakers, was gunned down in the southeastern city of Batman in 1993 as he himself investigated unsolved killings. His wife has waited in vain for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

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