“We’ll be at Galatasaray in Our 701st Week”

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“We as the relatives of the missing ones will be at Galatasaray in our 701st week as every Saturday. We will not give up searching for our missing ones and demanding justice until fate of the last person who disappeared in custody is explained and delivered to his or her family and all perpetrators are brought to justice”.

Saturday Mothers/People, Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch Commission against Disappearance in Custody, declared that they will be at Galatasaray Square in Beyoğlu, İstanbul in the 701st week as well.

Relatives of the missing people, rights defenders, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs Garo Paylan, Serpil Kemalbay, Murat Çepni, Hüda Kaya, Züleyha Gülüm, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu and a large number of press members attended the press conference held in İHD İstanbul Branch.

İHD İstanbul Branch Chair Gülseren Yoleri said they will always stand by relatives of the missing ones in their struggle.

The statement was read out and the demands were listed by a mission person relative Maside Ocak.

Four demands

Ocak stressed that they reiterated these four demands during 699 weeks:

* Explain what happened to the people who disappeared in custody

* Put an end to impunity, which protects the perpetrators of crime of disappearance in custody

* May no one disappear in custody again

* May Turkey sign and exercise the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance! (BK/TK)