Summary The Turkish foreign ministry called the report 'biased' in a statement
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey condemned late Friday a UN report as "biased" after it accused Turkish security forces of committing serious abuses during operations against Kurdish militants in the southeast.
"The report about anti-terror operations in the southeast is biased, based on false information and far from professional," the Turkish foreign ministry said, responding to a United Nations rights office report published earlier.
The UN on Friday accused Turkish security forces of committing serious abuses during operations against Kurdish militants in the southeast after a ceasefire collapsed in July 2015.
A report from the United Nations 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".
"Government security operations" have targeted more than 30 towns and displaced 355,000 to half a million people, mostly Kurds, the report said.
According to statistics given by Ankara to the UN, the unrest in the southeast has claimed some 2,000 lives over the last year and half.
That figure includes about 800 soldiers and 1,200 "local residents", the report said, but there was no available breakdown for the number of Kurdish militants and civilians killed.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984, though the violence was contained during the truce agreed in 2013.
But fighting resumed when the ceasefire fell apart in the summer of 2015.
Satellite images of areas affected by the latest unrest "indicate an enormous scale of destruction of the housing stock by heavy weaponry", the report said, with some neighbourhoods "razed to the ground".
