In a statement to journalists about the excavations in Þýrnak’s Güçlükonak district and Görümlü town, Þýrnak Bar Association Chairman lawyer Nuþirevan Elçi remarked that he believed Turkey needed to bring 17 thousand 547 unsolved murders into light to face its dark past in 90’s.

Elçi pointed out that the legal process about the mass graves should be launched in the soonest time on the basis of corresponding statements of witnesses and complainants. Remarking that the discovered bodies and even the clothes on them were easily recognized by the families of victims, Elçi pointed out to the forensic medicine examination of bodies and the suspension of excavations as processes that raise a question mark in minds.

Elçi noted that excavations should be made as soon as possible to prevent the creation of question marks and to obtain truer results and called an all public officials who witnessed unsolved murders to explain what they know.