Saturday Mothers' 736th week sit-in protest in Diyarbakır, Turkey by Mehmet Masum Suer / SOPA Images
Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch and Saturday Mothers, “Let the missing be found, let the perpetrators be tried” action in 736. the week was held in front of the Right to Life Monument in Kosuyolu Park in Diyarbakir. Saturday Mothers, rights defenders and representatives of non-governmental organizations participated in the action, photos of the missing were carried. Every week, the disappearance story of a missing person is told and those who were killed in this way are commemorated. Speaking at the action, Abdullah Zeytun, Head of the IHD Diyarbakir Branch, said: “We have come together to question state violence, to confront and Deconstruct, to ensure social peace, justice and the rule of law. We continue to insist on our demands." The Saturday Mothers demand that their civilian relatives who were abducted and killed in the 1980s and 1990s be found and the perpetrators brought to trial, due to the intensification of clashes between the Kurdish armed organization PKK and the State security forces in Turkey.
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