500Th Meeting Of Saturday Mothers Held In Galata Square

500th meeting of Saturday Mothers was held at Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square on Saturday. Before the meeting 150 scholars from 50 universities, published a statement in solidarity with the Saturday Mothers and called for attendance at the rally.
Republican People’s Party Deputy Ercan Karakaş, Mahmut Tanal and Sezgin Tanrıkulu and some deputies from People’s Democratic Party also attended the meeting.

Wife of Fehmi Tosun, who disappeared 20 years before said that since 20 years there has not been taken any step from the state. We are staging our meeting lest no more people like Fehmi Tosun would not to be disappeared from his home.

Brother of Cemil Kırbayır, another disappeared said they are struggling for justice and democracy to question the end of the disappeared person where they ar.

After the speech Saturday mothers left from the square by collecting placards and photos of their disappeared loved ones
Saturday Mothers (Cumartesi Anneleri) is a group who gathers 12pm every Saturday for half an hour at Galatasaray (district), Istanbul (Turkey), holding photographs of their "lost" loved ones. Mainly composed of mothers of victims, and renowned as a model of civil disobedience, they combine silent sit-in with communal vigil as their method of protest against the forced disappearances and political murders in Turkey during the military coup-era of 1980s and the OHAL-era of 1990s. On October 25, 2014, they held their 500th sit-in protest.

SHOT LIST

-Var of bird view of the crowd
-Group carry photos of their disappeared loved ones
-A scripts that read 500
-Ercan Karakaş, Mahmut Tanal, Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Deputies of Republican People’s Party
-Speech of wife of disappeared Fehmi Tosun
-Var of speech of the brother of Cemil Kırbayır
-Var of the placards which is being left from the area

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