Gathering at the 396th week of justice-seeking demonstration at Galatasaray Square in Istanbul, Saturday Mothers called on the government to take urgent steps concerning the indispensable democratic demands of hundreds of young people on hunger strike and to abandon policies that leave mothers without their children.

Reading the press statement of the 396th week, Maside Ocak said the followings referring to peace wishes of the President and Prime Minister on the occasion of the Eid Al-Adha; “Which peace are you talking about as the maintainers of the policies that hide the fates of our children and protect their murderers? Which peace are you talking about in the country of mothers who don’t have a grave of their children? Which state of law are you talking about in the face of the fact that hundreds of prisoners are resorting to death for their most fundamental rights?”

Saturday Mothers asked the burial places of 70 years-old Þemsettin Yurtseven from whom no news has been received since his detention in Hakkari’s Yüksekova district seventten years ago, 13 years-old Münir Sarýtaþ, 18 years-old Mikdat Özeken and Hüseyin Toraman who has been missing for the last 21 years.

Speaking after, Haným Tosun, wife of Fehmi Tosun who disappeared in 1995, remarked that the government has given no answer to the families of disappeared people who have been asking the fate of their children for many years. Tosun reminded of the Peace Mothers on hunger strike in front of Bakýrköy Prison and added the followings; “Government authorities have neither heard our voice nor taken a step so far. How many more people need to die before they find a solution to the Kurdish problem? Yet, they are talking about conscience without seeing prisoners who have been staging a hunger strike for 46 days to demand a humane life and humanity. They should take a step before this strike ends without any deaths.”