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Asking the fate and whereabouts of their enforced disappeared loved ones for 26 years, Saturday Mothers/People were at Galatasaray Square yesterday. They stressed that they would not give up until the last missing person was found.

It has been 25 years since Saturday Mothers/People started demanding justice for the enforced disappeared: “We have once again exclaimed that we will give up neither our losses nor Galatasaray Square, which is our meeting place with them."

CHP MP Tanrıkulu asked the Ministry of Interior why Galatasaray Square has been banned for 73 weeks. It has responded 13 months later: “Galatasaray Square is not one of the sites designated by the Governorship for meetings and demonstrations.”

Prevented from holding their weekly sit-in protests at Galatasaray Square in İstanbul since their 700th gathering, Saturday Mothers/People have laid carnations on the square in the 24th year of their first protest in Galatasaray.