PEOPLES’ Democratic Party MP Leyla Guven appealed for international solidarity today after the sickening discovery of hundreds of Kurdish bodies buried under a pavement on the outskirts of Istanbul.

Footage from the Mesopotamia News Agency showed the remains of the dead packed into small plastic boxes that were stacked on top of each other under a tarmacked pavement in the seaside village of Kilyos, part of the Sariyer district of Turkey’s largest city.

Ms Guven sent a message to the Morning Star appealing for support from human-rights organisations.