Turkey is condemned in using chemical weapons

Despite denials by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish human rights group is investing claims by activists and MPs from the legal pro-Kurdish party that Ankara used chemical weapons against PKK rebels, the bioprepwatch.com reports.

The Turkish Human Rights Association, or IHD, confirmed that the group recently took chemical samples from the clothing of 13 rebels killed in a recent bombing in the Kazan Valley in the east of the country. They are also taking samples from nearby chemical plants, according to the Telegraph.

Activists, meanwhile, are circulating pictures of 24 of the dead PKK guerillas killed in the air raid. The corpses are black and dismembered, lying in a morgue in a nearby town. The only explanation for the type of burns the bodies show, according to the activists, is the use of chemical weapons by Turkish forces.