Saturday Mothers meeting attended by international delegates
Saturday Mothers meeting attended by international delegates
Saturday Mothers gained a new level of international attention during their 275th meeting in front of Galatasaray High School. The European Social Forum (ESF) supported Saturday Mothers’ weekly meeting to repeat their demand about the fate of their missing children.
ESF delegates arrived in Istanbul for their annual meeting on June 30.
The 275th meeting of Saturday Mother was dedicated to Ali Uygur, who disappeared after police took him into custody in Pozanti district of Adana in 1980.
Sermin Uygur, the sister of Ali Uygur, explains, “My brother had been on the train with his friends, Mithat Nisan, Mahir Kececi and Ozcan Fedakar. They had been arrested all together but we have never heard from him while the others were eventually released."
She went on saying that "According to our findings, he had been held in Mersin Police Department’s 2nd office and tortured to death. Then police secretly buried my brother in the Cemetery of the Nameless after replacing his body with the dead body of Ali Butun, a man who drowned at sea."
She ended her story by saying that "Our family asked every relevant government institution to launch investigation. Hasim Aslan, who was arrested with my brother, explained that he was a witness when my brother was tortured to death. No one asked him, but what did he see?
Eventually, the file about my brother’s case has been swept under the rug like thousands of other torture files. There were 290 people buried in the Cemetery of the Nameless in 1995 alone, and 80 of them were tortured to death. I do not want to think about the total number of those tortured to death over the years and buried in the Cemetery of the Nameless.”
ESF delegates arrived in Istanbul for their annual meeting on June 30.
The 275th meeting of Saturday Mother was dedicated to Ali Uygur, who disappeared after police took him into custody in Pozanti district of Adana in 1980.
Sermin Uygur, the sister of Ali Uygur, explains, “My brother had been on the train with his friends, Mithat Nisan, Mahir Kececi and Ozcan Fedakar. They had been arrested all together but we have never heard from him while the others were eventually released."
She went on saying that "According to our findings, he had been held in Mersin Police Department’s 2nd office and tortured to death. Then police secretly buried my brother in the Cemetery of the Nameless after replacing his body with the dead body of Ali Butun, a man who drowned at sea."
She ended her story by saying that "Our family asked every relevant government institution to launch investigation. Hasim Aslan, who was arrested with my brother, explained that he was a witness when my brother was tortured to death. No one asked him, but what did he see?
Eventually, the file about my brother’s case has been swept under the rug like thousands of other torture files. There were 290 people buried in the Cemetery of the Nameless in 1995 alone, and 80 of them were tortured to death. I do not want to think about the total number of those tortured to death over the years and buried in the Cemetery of the Nameless.”
