ject relates part of the history of. going on with those who know about secret things are perhaps like this tradition cultural heritage foundation or links treasure trove. of documents. contributors keep telling. her 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 known as the saturday modest home of. despite the growing pressure that bella rand is determined to continue the fight for justice for her messing brother. bantay out the will to seek you see i've spent 38 years of my life looking for my brother. that's 2 thirds of my life.

never but 2018 the police are out in force in the very early district of a stumble. they call real and far ok 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 50 everything else the downtown nothing not. all the child who grew up on the square had lost their uncle and said to their mother. you know when you've lost something you look for it and

find it again. it was an issue how can it be that these people disappear and are never found. the police catalin a saturday mothers and unmarried straight. hey mr palace president we are in pain. we are looking for our dead children. the destroyer police and give us the square where. the saturday mothers have been holding that we can protest since the mid 1990 s. an era when countless kurds and left wing activists disappeared while in police custody. it powell and her fellow protesters are used to repeated police finance. look good are puzzled only good evidence of it today the pressure from the police

was more intense than usual. i was here today is always pressure really visit we are committed queues and will 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 times in connection with his work as a journalist. what you do to 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 to express those demands. booklet roosevelt liggett immune system. suddenly from iraq seems nervous with this it is their turn off the camera. downtown. in istanbul as full of police. turn it off. 2 months earlier

had lost his job as managing editor of the john who newspaper been deemed too critical of the government. today he and his family and friends are meeting in a cafe to remember her team it all has photos on her phone of her brother from the 1970s. with his long hair and glasses pirating 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 eat you give us your mission is really to find out 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 is i 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 lived in that time. all of the men sastre were detained but only hire a team failed to return. a few weeks later. it palace meeting up with her brother for. the former teacher is now 62 and retired but officer sanai has just graduated from college. on her way to the meeting it has to drive through a tunnel a place with traumatic memories. this is where they pick tyree up the hashim is coming under pass. rush off to hire a team was due to meet civility here. 23.

i am off to get children. i have to take this route regularly provided to him and 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 us places in turkey in the 1970 s. it was home to a thriving leftwing movement that following a military coup 980 the authorities launched a vicious crackdown on activists like hire a team this is the house where they grew up in humble circumstances their parents unskilled workers. i think everything is getting a look at it. it's been 10 years since

a poll was last here. nation is moving in this is where we spend our youth in the best and the worst chapters in our lives. the family fled the district shortly before the coup 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 . i mean they all do not really yours but at least when they're longer completely in the dark. we now know up to a certain point what happened to our brother. what we do not know is where he was buried. treasure collage the tragic part is that there's an anonymous cemetery on just the other side of that hill perhaps he was buried there as were a number of people who disappeared back then if that was the case then he's back.

coleman his own neighborhood. early sr mollison. of the month. 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 mothers unity is chairing today's meeting which acknowledges also attending on the agenda is what they can do to challenge the ban on their protests. he added as a period court has dismissed our cases and wote panetta trial that has produced in 2004 people stopped disappearing in the custody of the turkish police since the attempted coup in 2016 however there's been a resurgence of illegal methods on the land you'll get i shall say the have been

a lot of cases of people being coerced into spying on others. to talk to soldiers each they primarily target young people who are active in their community. by threatening them or promising the money if they work for police intelligence it can sit in church. just by. those who refuse run the risk of being tortured or killed and ask each all being arrested for no reason. was some of it of. this that in your letter he is holding a press conference to help draw public attention to a foreign 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. and you will either way i laugh. 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 good southern europe is association has documented over 200 similar cases across the country goes out in the cape 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 steeply 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 2908

palace on her way to an event commemorating a murder a journalist 12 years ago to the day turkish armenian her on think was shot dead in broad daylight here in the chalet district of a stumble upon knows his family well. here i listed it is it like us there are family in mourning and those families need support. would you be living my life should i do that we share more difficult days and that helps to alleviate the pain. i'm going there to be with them. 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 he has to fit into the. wider region. unfortunately the history of turkey is full of murders and massacres where

the culprits were never identified or brought to justice. what 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 run think. anti-government protest marches are generally banned but commemorative events such as this one are still open i set. the speeches in trade 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 of sitting with it if you alter the stuff. to. me. is an area on the western outskirts and i stumble on a palace here to visit her mother one of the co-founders of the saturday mothers movement for years she took part in the weekly sessions on kind of times that i square and now the age of $85.00 she's too frail to attend. my husband died a few years ago she now lives with her oldest daughter to me and. you know many. of. my thoughts are always with them on saturdays. i tuned into whatever t.v.

channel they're on to follow events we've now passed on the baton to it bar and she's always doing things on the other hand i'm always afraid something might happen to her like being arrested. for hannah's 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 harrity 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 out them all i've spent 38 years looking

for him. that's 2 thirds of my life. because 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 aaron's book about the disappearance of his brother has just been published. he's here with her sister's family to see the finished product for the 1st time. for work spent 25 years writing the book. the house the book shop where is it over there. the book's title is the story of the last revolution.

how are you. fine thanks. it really is. on. the book. a lot but 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. so. i wanted to let her know what kind of person her uncle was but i got delayed. i don't have a daughter of my own and i also wanted her to find out about her uncle although i'm just more and sick. to her it's very hard writing something like that.

he 1st had the idea many years ago but kept putting it off on the larry if found excuses and shelved his plans but it should us that he would write it one day all quiet she. is the i can understand him. alone with me and my big sister supported him so that the story would be preserved for our children and the whole country's children cognitive and what is now pretty is to something quite wonderful. up to. the book tells the story of heritance formative years his political activism on the day of his disappearance. ideally the time. that both daughters and i never met or uncle hire a teen but he plays a vital role and her life today. pushing a lot that's 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 buy copy of the book so that she can read all about the story that has left such a lasting impact on have. the knowledge that now it's not just in my book. we will never forget these stories of course but perhaps this book can help the healing process. we always go through a soldier. perks book proves to be a big summer leading 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 day. he's been charged in connection with the 2016 solidarity campaign for the

since banned procurators de mint as. he waits with a ball in a cafe outside the court building while the hearing takes place. must all be the earthquake 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 molly bish they immediately launched legal proceedings against us they acknowledge a symbolic moment they have understood all and now they're demanding we be handed tough sentences says all of these. did not even need to because if he goes to jail of course of visit him in a few days what else can i do believe me or you did not could i'm here today

because i'd rather see him as a free man one more time. once judging a side of course the happy isn't connected. to. chose not to attend the hearing in the hope of delaying the judge's ruling it's a tense wait. then for a receives a message from his attorney. there that after the trial will resume next week. until now the trial has always been postponed by several others. 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 out so the verdict will be announced after that. my. kitchen bench because i think the outcome of the local elections will influence the verdict least. i can only hope things turn out

well. and known as so often in their lives they face a waiting game. president at arm'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 saturday mother. today 7 months after the government issued its ban the police are again obstructing families protesting against the disappearance of their children stossel sisters and brothers. but more like paul is running out of patience that. the. who so called it years ago 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 humans if you are the real

. it's election night. for rick recently began working for tele one a small t.v. broadcast a critical of the government he's in charge of the station's 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 start a study hall is extremely important including the central district stroker this is where the casts put the a k p a head but its lead decreases as the evening progresses and the excitement of tele one mounts as the becomes clear that he has lost the capital ankara. the opposition is gaining an estimable 2 it's a neck and neck race between the 2 leading candidates. forces hope for the future.

without a view without their will this is a huge blow to the current government especially given the pressure surrounding the selection if it insists it is the 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 line 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 was because those are our hopes will not only out of. them the state news agency stops updating its results for a stumble. the final outcome is not revealed until the next morning the opposition money estimable with away from majority 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 without borders just gives over the election results

has dampened for its hopes of a more relaxed backdrop for the trial. lawyers like me is largely depend on the political climate and the 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 place the 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. to life. in the hearing begins cameras are not permitted inside the courtroom even in the corridor

filming is limited to smartphones. 2 hours 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. in 15. among those given for rock moral support is high profile investigative journalist akbar truck. in a you've still failed to get rid of me. maybe at the next trial. here's. the rocks mother happens to give him a call she had known about the trial would mark do a lot of though 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 in a state that on him my mother called because of the local elections i also told her about the trials but not that i was found guilty is all there with the children of the. good of the. hopefully she won't find out in the news yet i'll bet it will was there. any reason to think you were more than just the time for 38 years we've been victims of injustice. of it we've been through hell we've lost somebody brother too lazy to move business we've spent our own lives fighting for justice and today was just the latest example of the. job that we won't give up . 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 shouted down montague's we

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