The UN Friday accused  Turkish security forces of committing serious human rights violations during operations against Kurdish militants in the southeast since July 2015 when a ceasefire in the region collapsed.

A report from the UN rights office details evidence of "massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations committed between July 2015 and December 2016 in southeast Turkey" with "government security operations" displacing up to 500,000 mostly Kurdish people.