JINHA

ISTANBUL –Saturday Mothers gathered in the 602nd week of their demands for justice and they brought of seven people, including children, who were killed in the Dargeçit district of Mardin 21 years ago in detention to book. “Judges should do their duties in Dargeçit JİTEM case; they should secure the justice and rule of law,” said the people.

Saturday Mothers gathered 602nd week at the Galatasaray Square in order to demand justice for their lost and seek for justice. They unfurled a banner reads, “The perpetrators are known, where the missing are?” and decorated the banner with red carnations. In this week protest, they brought of seven people named Davut Altunkaynak (12), Seyhan Doğan (13), Nedim Akyön (16), Mehmet Emin Aslan (19), Abdurrahman Olcay (20), Abdurrahman Coşkun (21) and Süleyman Seyhan (57), who were killed in the Dargeçit district of Mardin 21 years ago in detention to book.

Şerif Taşkaya, son of Hüseyin Taşkaya disappeared after being detained in 1993, talked in the protest and he said, “Channels and radios have been silenced, the ruling power carries out the assimilation policies when it cannot annihilate.” Hanife Yıldız, mother of Murat Yıldız disappeared after being detained in 1995 and said, “We, who lost their loved ones, will continue to ask for the whereabouts of our missing. Erdoğan says, ‘There isn’t missing people’, what will happen to those killed during your period? We will ask them, too.”

Kazım Altunkaynak, brother of Davut Altunkaynak, who was disappeared after being detained in Dargeçit 21 years ago, said, “My brother went to missing when he was 12 years old. We found his bones in a well 21 years later. We want our missing and justice.”

Hediye Coşkun, mother of Abdurrahman Coşkun, one of disappeared people in Dargeçit, sent a letter and told her feeling by saying, “The state killed our children. We just found their bones. We know the perpetrators, they should be sentenced. We found our children but we won’t leave our struggle.”

Zeynep Kınalı İpek read the press statement on behalf of the Human Right Association Istanbul Branch; “We said and we will continue to say. State of Emergency makes the problems heavier instead of solving them. The State of Emergency should be lifted immediately. Judges should do their duties in Dargeçit JİTEM case; they should secure the justice and rule of law.”

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