Sit in by Saturday Mothers in many cities
Sit in by Saturday Mothers in many cities
Saturday Mothers held sit-in in Istanbul, Diyarbakýr, Batman and Cizre on Saturday to ask the fates of those forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially killed.
The sit-in in Istanbul was dedicated to Ahmet Þahin who disappeared in Diyarbakýr on March 18, 1993 after being taken into custody by soldiers. Saturday Mothers demanded the trial of the Lice prosecutor, the State Security Council prosecutor and the Lice District Gendarmerie Commander Nevzat Arýk who was not ashamed to admit that he killed and threw the disappeared Kamil Gündoðan’s body to a wasteyard. “This soldier [Arýk] retired as a colonel and put his candidacy for deputyship in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),” said Ezgi Üçkardeþler.
Raci Bilici from the Human Rights Association (ÝHD) emphasized in the sit-in in Diyarbakýr the link between the solution of the Kurdish issue and the uncovering of illegal structures of the state such as the Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit (JÝTEM). Mehmet Þen who was taken away and murdered by JÝTEM soldiers in the Nizip Town of Antep on March 26, 1994 was commemorated in the demonstration.
The release of children from prison was demanded in the sit-in in Batman. Nihat Ekinci from the ÝHD said the government did not take into consideration the ÝHD’s applications about rights violations in prisons.
In Cizre, M. Emin Pökün who was killed in a bombing during a wedding in the 1990s was commemorated. Pökün’s mother Rabia Pökün said, “I do not know why they murdered my son. Why are they not being tried? It is the government officials and village guards who killed my son.”
The sit-in in Istanbul was dedicated to Ahmet Þahin who disappeared in Diyarbakýr on March 18, 1993 after being taken into custody by soldiers. Saturday Mothers demanded the trial of the Lice prosecutor, the State Security Council prosecutor and the Lice District Gendarmerie Commander Nevzat Arýk who was not ashamed to admit that he killed and threw the disappeared Kamil Gündoðan’s body to a wasteyard. “This soldier [Arýk] retired as a colonel and put his candidacy for deputyship in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),” said Ezgi Üçkardeþler.
Raci Bilici from the Human Rights Association (ÝHD) emphasized in the sit-in in Diyarbakýr the link between the solution of the Kurdish issue and the uncovering of illegal structures of the state such as the Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit (JÝTEM). Mehmet Þen who was taken away and murdered by JÝTEM soldiers in the Nizip Town of Antep on March 26, 1994 was commemorated in the demonstration.
The release of children from prison was demanded in the sit-in in Batman. Nihat Ekinci from the ÝHD said the government did not take into consideration the ÝHD’s applications about rights violations in prisons.
In Cizre, M. Emin Pökün who was killed in a bombing during a wedding in the 1990s was commemorated. Pökün’s mother Rabia Pökün said, “I do not know why they murdered my son. Why are they not being tried? It is the government officials and village guards who killed my son.”
