despite this 15 nations 50 story. and 53 personal tips on berlin's very best interests. could now. clearly d.w. . 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 turn as the saturday modest. despite the growing pressure it bella rand is determined to continue the fight for justice for her messing brother. than i on the will to secure sydney i've spent 38 years of my life looking for my brother. which think that's 2 thirds of my life.

never but 2018 the police are asking for some the very early district of us dumbo. they call me ill and far look around here to demonstrate on behalf of their brother . it's been exactly a 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 official if we can. not put you down but we are beautiful including all the child or grew up on this 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. i'm

going to make a movie how can it be that these people disappear and i never found. the police catalin a saturday mother's and a narrow street. they missed the palace president we are in pain. we are looking for our dead children. the destroyer police and give us the square for. 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 until fellow protesters are used to repeated police finance. look it up was all done a good survey today the pressure from the police was more intense than usual.

i was here today is always pressure really to call the visit we're committed and we'll never surrender never. be iran's family and other protesters end up having to call it a day. and night here their 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 kaleta rice square and downtown istanbul until august 2018 the $700.00 protestors but the saturday not as 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. parent courts numerous times in

connection with his work as a journalist. so 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 it without delay get immune system. suddenly for it seems nervous with this it is better 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 her team it all has photos on her phone of her brother from the

970 s. . with his long hair and glasses pirating looks like john lennon. most of those gathered here were like him left wing activists back then. this photo was of a family picnic beat you give us your mission is clearly defined as 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. 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 sashay were detained but only hire a team failed to return. a few weeks later.

meeting up with her brother for aucoin the former teacher is now 62 and retired but also says and i had just graduated from college. on her way to the meeting has to drive through a tunnel a place where the traumatic memories. of . all this is where they pick tyree up the hashim is coming under pass. rush off to ensure the fire is he was due to meet silage head was a bit less rested had. that was on november the 21st 980 ira team was 26 years old at the time 23. and. i'd love to get children. do i have to take

this route regularly of the internet and every time i drive down here. it's just i remember that time. it pal is headed for the husk or a quarter of the city and i would 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 imagination the authorities launched a vicious crackdown on activists like hire a team to settle i can take a photo or so for all of. it banned for a 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. i think a pretty easy. it's been 10 years since it all was lost here.

this is where we spent our youth 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 team being tortured to death one in custody . but when they all do not really orders but at least when they're longer completely in the dark. we now know up to assess and point what happened to our brother. what we do not know where he was buried. 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

home in his own neighborhood. early system oleson. hopes someone. was 16 when his brother disappeared he spent years writing a book about her teen 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 won't panetta trial that just set. 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. to 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 it can citrus fires or just by. those who refuse run the risk of being tortured or killed and they are. all being arrested for no reason. us from below it. is that in your letter he is holding a press conference to help draw public attention to a current case involving a member of the pro kurdish people's democratic party or h d p 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 and you ladies 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's deeply worrying that it was said that. it's an issue that techies mainstream media no longer dare to cover all movements like the saturday mother's face growing pressure. january 19th 2908 bonus on her way to an event

commemorating a murder a journalist 12 years ago to the day turkish army and her on think were shot dead in broad daylight here in the shish lake district of estimable it paul knows his family while. here i received a visit like us their family in mourning and those families need support. i didn't live my life the one i did 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 has made it into a. wider which unfortunately the history of turkey is full of murders and

massacres where the culprits were never identified or brought to justice. dropping 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 are still panesar it. was the speeches into the chaos to the government to take action. on. it all to us in the time since rots down. turkey has become even more dangerous for journalists not just for journalists that there are currently 140 journalists in jail but also many academics writers politicians and attorneys anyone who

challenges the methods used by the government faces a threat of being arrested of sitting with it it is. the 1st. to. be. after is an area on the western outskirts in istanbul that palace here to visit her mother one of the co-founders of the saturday mother's movement for years she took part in the weekly sessions on got us that i square right now at 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. when. they learned to not use them on the ground 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. for her nose full of mementos of her son a picture he painted. the camp 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 hire a team was arrested by the police but his family believes they know the names of the offices alleged to have tortured him to death. music is no longer the life only it's a punishment for brother and us. and i are 2 men 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 in 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. for work spent 25 years writing the book. so. what this house the book show where is it over there the book's title is the story of the last revolution.

how are you. fine thanks. this is. the book sure a lot but i've already had a quick browse. also note that i wanted to write the book back when people start are set and i was born . you know 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. just were in zurich. too it's very hard writing something like that. but.

he 1st had the idea many years ago but kept putting it off which was behind a lie 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. along 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 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 that's like

a compass with every decision i have to make he shows me the way even with everyday issues. margaret 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 found that. out now it's not just in my book. baking. we will never forget the stories of course they did well perhaps this book can help the healing process and it's not as if they always goes from soldier to. kirk's book proves to be a big seller 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. he's been charged in connection with the 2016 solidarity campaign for the

sins and protesters daily as. he waits with a bomb on 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 actually is 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 it acknowledges them only full of they have understood it all and now they're demanding we be handed tough sentences autopsies of these little. did i believe it because if he goes to jail of course of visit him in a few days what else can i do believe me he did not could i'm here today because i'd

rather see him as a free man one more time. one suggesting a side of course ahead he isn't convicted of killing. berg chose not to attend the hearing and hope of delaying the judge's ruling it's a tense wait. then for a receives a message from his attorney. of there that after the trial will resume next week. until now the trial has always been postponed by several logs. 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 all. fiction that 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. present at iran's justice and development party 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 spouses sisters and brothers. but more like is running out of patience at. least. who took on the cheers to crystal that being penned in here in the street only makes people angry. chuckles 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 rick recently 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 anyone's popularity and last year's constitutional changes that gave him sweeping new powers stumble chill a stumble is extremely important including the central district just struck this is where the a.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 a head but its lead decreases as the evening progresses and the excitement of telling one mounts as it becomes clear that the k.p. 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 cookie candidate been alleviated it is point 2 percent ahead but they're not publishing show real results we want. the mood at the t.v. station becomes increasingly upbeat for a now sees hope for the future. only that out of you regard we have all this is a huge blow to the current government especially given the amends pressure surrounding the selection is it insisted it's 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 because those are our hopes.

then the state news agency stops updating its results for a stumble the final outcome is not revealed until the next morning. the opposition one is stumbled with a way 5th and 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 it just didn't have the election results has dampened for its hopes of a more relaxed backdrop for the trial. 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 place the statement that we were always defending freedom of the press is limited to smart phones.

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. if he did. among those given for rock moral support is high profile investigative journalist my truck. you know you've still failed to get rid of me. maybe at the next trial to. the rocks mother happens to give them a call she had known about the trial would much time outside of the court i had a hearing to attend. you know i've heard so many court cases but nothing happened.

everything and it was really going on then 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 all was that it. was a sick his you were more desired time him for 38 years we've been victims of injustice mediation of it we've been through hell with the guy 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 new plan to keep your job but we won't give up. we still to month at the state explains its actions. all mother who will never give up not until they give us the bones of our brother we judge it on

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