ISTANBUL - Saturday Mothers have met for 684th time demanding justice for forcibly disappeared. Gülbahar Alpsoy asked the fate of her grandfather being forcibly disappeared in 1994 and she said, “I grew up at this square. I wrote letters having no address. My grandfather should have a grave. I will not leave this square until my grandfathers’ grave is found.”

 

Saturday Mothers gathered in front of Galatasaray High School for 684th time demanding justice for forcibly disappeared. The mother unfurled a banner reading, “The perpetrators are known, where the disappeared are?” and carried red carnations. On the 684th week, the mothers demanded those who are responsible for the missing of Halil Alpsoy and Kasım Alpsoy in custody in 1994 to be tried.

 

Hanife Yıldız, mother of Murat Yıldız being forcibly disappeared in custody in İzmir in 1995, first began to speak and she said, “They take away our right to receive news as they took away our loved ones. No one can silence us. I wonder what that prosecutor opening an investigation against me will ask me. Their justice proves me to be in the wrong again. You call everyone at this square as terrorist. All people gathering at this square come here due to injustice. Let’s come together at all squares and end this injustice.”

 

‘I will not leave this square until all disappeared people are found’

 

After the speech of Hanife, Halil Alpsoy’s nine-year-old grandson Samet began to speak and said, “My mother and grandmother shouldn’t be sad anymore. I want my grandfather to have a grave.” Then Kasım Alpsoy’s granddaughter Gülbahar Alpsoy spoke and she said, “I grew up at this square. I wrote letters having no address. My grandfather should have a grave. We want to place flowers on his grave. I will not leave this square until all disappeared people are found.”