"I want my son's bones" says a mother
"I want my son's bones" says a mother
Saturday Mothers gathered this time for Hüseyin Morsümbül who was detained by soldiers and disappeared in custody one week after the September 12 military coup.
Morsümbül’s house in Bingöl was raided by police and soldiers under the command of Colonel Durmuþ Coþkun Kývrak on September 18, 1980, yet when he was a high school student.
Morsümbül is taken to Bingöl Military Brigade Command by soldiers who say that he will be released after bearing his testimony.
The next day, mother Fatma Morsümbül goes to the military station and asks her son. They answer mother Morsümbül that her son is ‘there’ and take the food she brought for her son from her. When Hüseyin’s brother Cengiz goes to the station a few hours later, a soldier hits Cengiz on chin and says “Hüseyin escaped”.
Morsümbül family's house is once again raided one day later when soldiers take father Hanefi Morsümbül into custody. Being exposed to torture, given electricity and hung on a pipe for 24 hours, father Morsümbül is released a day later.
During the torture, father Morsümbül hears two policemen speaking between each other; one saying that “Hüseyin escaped”, the other one saying that “he was killed”.
A few days later, mother Fatma and Henefi Morsümbül bear testimony at the military prosecutor's office and make a complaint about the responsible. Four years later, someone calls them and tells that “Hüseyin was killed in torture, taken from the military station in a blanket and thrown into the Murat river”.
Morsümbül family knocks all the doors to learn about their son for 31 years but the applications of the family and lawyers meet the reply of the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Registration that “In accordance with the Council of Ministers’ Decision No 10.09.2003 and 2003/6174, Hüseyin Morsümbül was denationalized on grounds of not doing his military service”.
Mother Fatma Morsümbül asks the fate of his son for many years at the Saturday Square, with the relatives of other lost people. While mother Morsümbül can’t join this action due to the cancer she is suffering from, Saturday Mother Haným Tosun, speaking in the place of Fatma Morsümbül says; “Thousands of mothers continue the struggle in the name of all the lost people and their families”.
Making this week’s statement of Saturday Mothers, Seza Mis Horuz remarked that the application letters of mother Fatma Morsümbül haven’t been put in process and further exterminated for 31 years.
The statement said; “We hold Colonel Durmuþ Kývrak directly responsible for the losing of Hüseyin Morsümbül and we demand the trial of all military factors of Hüseyin’s interrogation and the coup’s leading actor Kenan Evren for the ‘crimes committed against the humanity’ by them. We call on prosecutors to actuate the law and to judge the putschers and their collaborators.”
Morsümbül’s house in Bingöl was raided by police and soldiers under the command of Colonel Durmuþ Coþkun Kývrak on September 18, 1980, yet when he was a high school student.
Morsümbül is taken to Bingöl Military Brigade Command by soldiers who say that he will be released after bearing his testimony.
The next day, mother Fatma Morsümbül goes to the military station and asks her son. They answer mother Morsümbül that her son is ‘there’ and take the food she brought for her son from her. When Hüseyin’s brother Cengiz goes to the station a few hours later, a soldier hits Cengiz on chin and says “Hüseyin escaped”.
Morsümbül family's house is once again raided one day later when soldiers take father Hanefi Morsümbül into custody. Being exposed to torture, given electricity and hung on a pipe for 24 hours, father Morsümbül is released a day later.
During the torture, father Morsümbül hears two policemen speaking between each other; one saying that “Hüseyin escaped”, the other one saying that “he was killed”.
A few days later, mother Fatma and Henefi Morsümbül bear testimony at the military prosecutor's office and make a complaint about the responsible. Four years later, someone calls them and tells that “Hüseyin was killed in torture, taken from the military station in a blanket and thrown into the Murat river”.
Morsümbül family knocks all the doors to learn about their son for 31 years but the applications of the family and lawyers meet the reply of the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Registration that “In accordance with the Council of Ministers’ Decision No 10.09.2003 and 2003/6174, Hüseyin Morsümbül was denationalized on grounds of not doing his military service”.
Mother Fatma Morsümbül asks the fate of his son for many years at the Saturday Square, with the relatives of other lost people. While mother Morsümbül can’t join this action due to the cancer she is suffering from, Saturday Mother Haným Tosun, speaking in the place of Fatma Morsümbül says; “Thousands of mothers continue the struggle in the name of all the lost people and their families”.
Making this week’s statement of Saturday Mothers, Seza Mis Horuz remarked that the application letters of mother Fatma Morsümbül haven’t been put in process and further exterminated for 31 years.
The statement said; “We hold Colonel Durmuþ Kývrak directly responsible for the losing of Hüseyin Morsümbül and we demand the trial of all military factors of Hüseyin’s interrogation and the coup’s leading actor Kenan Evren for the ‘crimes committed against the humanity’ by them. We call on prosecutors to actuate the law and to judge the putschers and their collaborators.”
