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Saturday Mothers mark 700th protest sitting for disappeared in Turkey
by CEREN SAGIR
The Saturday Mothers protest at Galatasaray Square
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EVERY Saturday since May 1995, the Saturday Mothers have been holding sit-ins at Galatasaray — one of the most popular districts in Istanbul — Turkey to demand an end to the silence about enforced disappearances in police custody from the 1980s and ‘90s.
What started out with 30 members, the Saturday Mothers, which is the longest lasting peaceful protest in Turkey's history, now sees hundreds of supporters join them in carrying the photographs of those who disappeared in detention.
Only around 450 cases have been resolved out of the thousands who were taken into detention by security forces and had their existence denied by official authorities.
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