Saturday Mothers/People Ask for Appointment with Erdoğan

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Saturday Mothers/People have made an application to meet with President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Families of Fehmi Tosun, Cemil Kırbayır, Hayrettin Eren, Hüseyin Taşkaya, Hasan Ocak, Rıdvan Karakoç and Ferhat Tepe asked for an appointment with Erdoğan on behalf of the Satırday Mothers/People via fax they sent today (August 31).

In the petition, the families calling on Erdoğan said, “Finding our missing ones and securing justice is state’s duty. Due to negative approaches of the minister and government officials, our addressee is you who pledged to our old mothers in the meeting held on February 5, 2011 that ‘your problem is my council’s problem’”.

“We didn’t witness any progress after the meeting”

The families stated that since May 27, 1995, they want to be informed about their relatives, whose existence have been denied since they were detained by law enforcers, and demand that those whose made them disappear be punished by the end of a fair and independent judgement.

They recalled that seven years and eight months passed over their meeting with then-Prime Minister Erdoğan on February 5, 2011 and despite Parliamentary Commission’s report no legal action was taken with respect to disappearance of Cemil Kırbayır and Kırbayı’s bones haven’t been delivered to his family.

They said that they didn’t witness any progress concerning the truth being revealed and justice being secured.

The families also expressed that the police intervention in the 700th Week rally “damaged their hope in justice”. (BK/TK)