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By Daren Butler and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Nearly 30 years after Kurdish lawyer Yusuf Ekinci was gunned down and his body dumped by a highway, his lawyer son is still seeking justice in one of hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings. The killings, and the murky ties between organised crime and politicians that they pointed to, are firmly back on Turkey s agenda following an appeals court ruling and after allegations made by a convicted mob boss in videos posted on social media that millions of Turks have now watched. The two, unrelated developments have reignited interest in suspected collusion between the Turkish state and criminal gangs as part of Ankara s decades-old fight with militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Last month an appeals court overturned the 2019 acquittal of former interior minister Mehmet Agar and security force members accused of killing Ekinci and 18 others, mostly Kurdish lawyers, businessmen and civil servants in 1994. It said the co

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