community interactive content teaching next generation about environmental protection. using the channels available to inspire people to take action and we're determined to build something here for the next generation the idea is the environment series of global 3000 on t.w. and online at it. for over 2 decades families in istanbul have been demanding information on the disappearance of their loved ones but the added one government has banned protests by the group turn as the saturday modest. despite the growing pressure the color run is determined to continue the fight for justice for her messing brother. and i are the will to seduce him in sydney i've spent 38 years of my life looking for my

brother. which think that's 2 thirds of my life. november 2018 the police are out in force in the very early district of a stumble. because channel and pharmacare ran ahead to demonstrate on behalf of their brother. it's been exactly the fashion 8 years since the left wing activist was arrested by the police never to reappear. they share their fate with thousands of other families in turkey. every saturday they take to the streets to call for information from the state. department they're going to fix it immediately if we can't help it not. be due to. all the child or grew up on the square had lost that and. and said to their mother you know when you've lost something you

look for it and find it again. you want to measure how can it be that these people disappear and i never found. the police catalin a saturday mother's and a narrow street. hey mr palace presidents we are in pain. we are looking for our dead children. the destroyer police and give us the square of. the saturday mothers have been holding their weekly protest since the mid 1990 s. an era when countless kurds and left wing activists disappeared while in police custody. it down to a fellow protesters are used to repeated police finance. look at all possible going to good service today the pressure from the police was more

intense than usual. i was getting there's always pressure really to call the business we're committed to use and we'll never surrender never get to be there and found me and other protesters end up having to call it a day. and that is that here that beloved brother disappeared long before a ship tired ad on became president but his regime is opposed to the protests that wasn't always the case. for years after everyone came to power the saturday mothers were free to demonstrate here on square and downtown istanbul until august 2018 the 700 protest by the saturday mothers was banned and broken up by the police the demonstrators were accused of having links to terrorist organizations many were arrested among them for a qur'an because younger. brother. he's had to appear in court numerous times in

connection with his work as a journalist. so i just do it while others have a very painful demand. they want to find the bones of their children. and as it is ultimately the state's responsibility that the state can find them if it wants to. the most painful part is that the government does not even want us to express those demands. without delay get it when sister. suddenly from iraq seems nervous just sitting there to off the camera. downtown istanbul is full of police. turn it off. 2 months earlier had lost his job as managing editor of the john hoody a newspaper being deemed too critical of the government. today he and his family and friends are meeting in a cafe to remember how the teen they call has photos on her phone of her brother

from the 1970 s. . with his long hair and glasses hydrogen looks like john lennon. although most of those gathered here were like him left wing activists back that. this photo was of a family picnic b.t.w. the initial missions really deprived it's good that we were able to spend all that time together without that we would never have been able to endure all of this book not long after my brother disappeared i read a small ad in the newspaper for someone who'd been missing for 9 months i remember thinking how is it possible to stomach those 9 months. it's been 38 years not 9 months since that ad and we're still a life issue the question is how we left in that time. all of them and says here were detained but only high. retained failed to return.

a few weeks later. a palace meeting up with her brother for aucoin the former teacher is now 62 and retired but also says an eye has just graduated from college . on her way to the meeting it has to drive through a tunnel a place with traumatic memories. of. all this is where they pick tyree up the hasn't is coming underpass. wash off which perry team is due to meet separately head to sleep at least arrested him. and that was on november the 21st 980 hire a team was 26 years old at the time 23. had off to get children. do i have to take this route regularly or that it's an

event every time i drive down here. which i remember that time was. a palace headed for the husk or a quarter of the city and old working class neighborhood where her family had lived until shortly before her big brother's disappearance. as an as places in turkey in the 1970 s. it was home to a thriving leftwing movement but following a military to 980 the authorities launched a vicious crackdown on activists like hire a team who is willing to settle i can take a photo or so for all of. it banned for curious to see what their old neighborhood looks like now. this is the house where they grew up in humble circumstances their parents unskilled workers. working with the.

it's been 10 years since it all was lost here. is moving this is where we spent our youth the best and the worst chapters in our lives. the family fled the district shortly before the care only for hire a team to disappear just a few months later they looked everywhere for him and came into contact with other prisoners who reported having seen her teen being tortured to death one in custody . but i mean they all do not really orders but at least we're no longer completely in the dark. we now know up to a certain point what happened to our brother. what we did not know where he was buried. treasure collage the tragic part is that there's an anonymous cemetery on just the other side of that hill that perhaps he was buried there as were a number of people who disappeared back then if that was the case then he's back

home in his own neighborhood. early sister mollison. hope someone. for up was 16 when his brother disappeared he spent years writing a book about her writing now he wants to finally complete her. back in may are you attorney goes out on your lady and human rights association i.h.t. provide legal support for the saturday mother's unity is chairing today's meeting which also attending on the agenda is what they can do to challenge the ban on their protests. younger tessa period court has dismissed our cases and wote panetta trial that just put in 2004 people stopped disappearing in the custody of the turkish police since the attempted coup in 2016 however has been

a resurgence of illegal methods for. your own good i shall say there have been a lot of cases of people being coerced into spying on others. to talk to soldiers each day they primarily target young people who are active in their community. by threatening them or promising the money if they work for police intelligence if you can see the church minister just by. those who refuse run the risk of being tortured or killed and they are. all being arrested for no reason. us some of. this illinois lottery is holding a press conference to help to public attention to a current case involving a member of the procurators people's democratic party or h.d. ping for months the man in question has faced harassment and threats from individuals claiming to work for the intelligence agencies they want him to spy on his own party. he plays a recording of

a phone call. the voices belong to the supposed agents trying to arrange a meeting with him. the press conference is attended by just a handful of journalists from minor media outlets critical of the government over the last 2 years goes on in europe his association has documented over 200 similar cases across the country goes out in the cape florida up until the late 1990 s. people being disappeared while in place custody was a major problem because we're now seeing a new increase in cases like this one an indication of state authorities feeling that they can get away with resorting to extra judicial methods again and that's deeply worrying that it was a. it's an issue that techies mainstream media no longer data cover movements like the saturday mother's face growing pressure. january 19th 2900 the

palace on her way to an event commemorating a murder journalist 12 years ago to the day turkish armenian one think was shot dead in broad daylight here in the surely district of a stumble. knows his family well. here i listen to their music like us their family in mourning and those families need support. i.g.b. live by lashing out at it we share our more difficult days and that helps to alleviate the. paying. i'm going there to be with them but. iraq has also come along he knew from think personally. things matter remains unsolved the trial of dozens of police officers and intelligence agents charged with complicity in the killing continues to drag on there as we get into the logic . of fighting which unfortunately the history of turkey is full of murders and

massacres where the culprits were never identified or brought to justice. the pain brings people together. there are a lot of saturday mothers here today and relatives of individuals whose murders have never been solved. but there are also a lot of regular people who are opposed to these murders. thousands have gathered to remember one think. anti-government protest marches are generally banned but commemorative events such as this one. the speeches intrude appears to the government to take action. on. it all to us in the time since rod's death turkey has become even more dangerous for journalists and not just for journalists was it that there are currently $140.00 journalists in jail but also many academics writers politicians and attorneys

anyone who challenges the methods used by the government faces the threat of being arrested perhaps it imitated you all to. put. me. off tonight is an area on the western outskirts in istanbul that palace he had to visit him about almost one of the co-founders of the saturday mother's movement for years she took part in the weekly sessions on going to test that i square that now the. age of $85.00 she's too frail to attend. her husband died a few years ago she now lives with her oldest daughter actually are. long gone my thoughts are always with them on saturdays. i chewed into whatever

t.v. channel they're on to follow events we've now passed on the baton to it and she's always doing things on the other hand i'm always afraid something might happen to her like being arrested. her hands full of mementos of her son a picture he painted. the cap from his circumcision party his watch. all the care if only they had given me my son back in sound health or at least show me his grave that would have given me some closure but instead i've been left wondering for years whether they murdered or perhaps dismembered him. the authorities have never confirmed that heritage was arrested by the police but his family believes they know the names of the officers alleged to have tortured him to death. and visitors are longer the life although it's

a punishment for our brother and us. and i at the mall i've spent 38 years looking for him. that's 2 thirds of my life. isn't that unbelievable. we're living with a trauma one that has also been passed on to our children. nobody has ever been charged in connection with the death of her brother. now an early march for everyone's book about the disappearance of his brother has just been published. he's here with us sister's family to see the finished product for the 1st time. spent 25 years writing the book. is what this house the book where is it over there the book's title is the story of the last revolution.

how are you. fine thanks. really. then like the book sure it's i've already had a quick browns. also note that i wanted to write the book back when i was daughter set and i was born. you know i wanted to let her know what kind of person her uncle was but i got delayed. by then had a daughter of my own and i also wanted her to find out about her uncle. i'm just

sick. it's very hard writing something like that. neatly he 1st had the idea many years ago but kept putting it off which was behind a lie if found excuses and shelters plus but it should us that he would write it one day all quiet she. is the i can understand him. me and my big sister supported him so that the story would be preserved for our children and the whole country's children. to share and what is now pretty is to something quite wonderful we're going to get it. the book tells the story of her formative years his political activism on the day of his disappearance. ideally the time my. daughter and i never met or uncle her a teen but he plays a vital role and her life today. pushing

a lot less like a compass with every decision i have to make he shows me the way even with everyday issues. he's become a part of me. says and i immediately buys her own copy of the book so that she can read all about the story that has left such a lasting impact on have. the notch up to now it's not just my book. baking. we will never forget the stories of course it will perhaps this book can help the healing process. we always go through of soldier. burke's book proves to be a big summit meeting to reprints in the space of just a few weeks. but he has little time to celebrate now at the end of march he has

none. he's been charged in connection with the 2016 solidarity campaign for the sins and protesters daily as. he waits with a cafe outside the court building while the hearing text place. must ultimately good the newspaper was under huge pressure back then the authorities tried to draw in the management of legal proceedings hundreds of them it shows the. latest in their defense a group of us writers intellectual some artists took part in a solidarity campaign. for one day we were the editors that it was only a symbolic gesture but not for the government said holy shit they immediately launched legal proceedings against us that acknowledges several people that they have understood all and now they're demanding we be handed tough sentences autopsies all of these. did not even lead to because if he goes to jail of course the visit him cutie what else can i do believe me or you didn't learn you could are

here today because i'd rather see him as a free man one more time. suggesting a side of course a happy isn't connected. to. berg chose not to attend the hearing in the hope of delaying the judge's ruling it's a tense wait. then for iraq receives a message from his attorney. there that obviously the trial will resume next week. until now the trial has always been postponed by several lots of. me but this time the deferral is a matter of days which means we can expect a verdict soon that there are local elections this week a lot so the verdict will be announced after that all my. dictionary which i think the outcome of the local elections will influence the verdict at least. i can only

hope things turn out well. and known as so often in their lives they face a waiting game. president add on's justice and development party the a.k.p. wants to retain its majority at the local elections the day before the elections because taking part in a rally of the 2nd day mother. today 7 months after the government issued its ban the police are again obstructing families protesting against the disappearance of their children spouses sisters and brothers what that more like paul is running out of patience that. think it's who took all the cheers to goose the little that being penned in here in the street only makes people angry or. we've already been incredibly angry for the last 38 years.

but being treated like this intensifies that anger. with him is if you are the real . it's election night. for a greece and he began working for tele one a small t.v. broadcast a critical of the government he's in charge of the stations local election coverage many of his colleagues have also been prosecuted the 1st exit polls start to come in the village is seen as a barometer of everyone's popularity and last year's constitutional changes that gave him sweeping new powers stumble she has done it all is extremely important including the central district stroker this is where the k.p. was born. while if the chances are high of the opposition winning there. it's exciting. the 1st forecasts put the a.k.p. ahead but it's late decreases as the evening progresses and the excitement of telly one mounts as it becomes clear that he has lost the capital ankara. the opposition

is gaining in istanbul too it's a neck and neck race between the 2 leading candidates. $48.00 to $48.00 we want to istanbul. the state news agency on a dollar says the a creepy candidate been alleviated there is point 2 percent ahead but they're not publishing the real results we want. the news at the t.v. station becomes increasingly upbeat now sees hope for the future truck whatever you only get out of you will be able this is a huge blow to the current government especially given the young man's pressure surrounding the selection of the city. this is hugely opposition got hardly any media exposure only from stations like ours but despite that pressure and almost all t.v. stations and newspapers telling the government alone we now have this outcome which i hope will see positive developments emerging from this and that we can make

a return to democracy and that the pressure subsides because those are our hopes will not only out of. the state news agency stops updating its results for a stumble the final outcome is not revealed until the next morning the opposition among the estimable by the way for fanatic of the ruling a.k.p. party is already planning to contest the results. 3 days later the judges are expected to announce their verdict in for a trial he's joined by a representative of reporters about borders that just didn't show the election results has dampened for its hopes of a more relaxed backdrop for the trial. to get it will doyle's like these largely depend on the political climate and now that climate is even more charged. the government is not accepting the results of the election and that makes things even tougher. so what will you say in your placing statement

that we were always defending freedom of the press and freedom of expression and will continue to do so. the final hearing is scheduled for 9 fast it makes it just in time. for us family and friends want to show their support on this vital day he could potentially face a 7 and a half year jail sentence. a good reminder that the hearing begins cameras are not permitted inside the courtroom even in the car or filming is limited to smartphones. later the trial is over has been handed a suspended 15 month sentence it's a warning put one more foot wrong and he could end up in jail. he gets to live. among those given for rock moral support is high profile

investigative journalist akbar truck. you know you've still failed to get rid of me . maybe at the next trial. all. the rocks mother happens to give him a call she had known about the trial would mark i'm outside of the court i had a hearing to attend. you know i've had so many court cases but nothing happened. and live and innocent. and then my mother called because of the local elections i also told her about the trials but not that i was found guilty there were the children. to. hopefully she won't find out in the news yet i'll bet it all was that. this is what you think you were going to the time

for 38 years we've been victims of injustice. we've been through hell we've lost somebody brother. sealable reason we've spent our lives fighting for justice and today was just the latest example of the long journey but we won't give up if we still demand that the state explains its actions. all mother will never give up not until they give us the bones of our brother be jotted down montague's we just. but another setback was to come.

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