i. don't know if it is simply being true nice to do good. to discover who. subscribed to the documentary on you tube. 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 known as the saturday modest. despite the growing pressure it bella rand is determined to continue the fight for justice for her messing brother. and i
are the will to seek use in sydney i've spent 38 years of my life looking for my brother. that's 2 thirds of my life. the police are out in force and they bring all you district of us down bold. they come. around the here to demonstrate on behalf of that brought the hydrogen. it's been exactly a fancy 8 years since the left wing activist was arrested by the police never to reappear. they share their fate with thousands of other families and tacky. every saturday they take to the streets to call for information from the state. not the kind of flipping the town not. all the child or 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. we want to measure how can it be that these people disappear and are 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. destroy your police and give us the square where. 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 powell and her fellow protesters are used to repeated police finance. look it up was all done a good deal today the pressure from the police was more intense than usual.
i was getting there is always pressure really to call the visit we're committed to use and we'll never surrender never get. it to run family and other protesters end up having to call it a day. and i hear their beloved brother disappeared long before racial type 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 substate mothers were free to demonstrate. 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 response. ability that the state can find them
if it wants to. the most painful part of the government does not even want us to express those demands. to be out. suddenly from iraq seems now. this it is their turn 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 teen. has photos on her phone of her brother from the 1970 s. . 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 each of you knew the initial missions really deprived and 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 them and 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 also says and i had just graduated from college. on her way to the meeting ecb . i have to drive through a tunnel
a place with traumatic memories. yeah all this is where they pick tyree up the hashim is coming underpass. watch ostrich pirates he was due to meet somebody here is a lease arrested him. that was on november the 21st 1980 hire a team was 26 years old at the time 23. and. i love the gay children. do i have to take this route regularly with a him and every time i drive down here. it's just they remember that time is. a palace 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 coup in 1980 the authorities launched a vicious crackdown on activists like hire a team to sweden settle i can take a photo or so from about all of. it banned from 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 it is. it's been 10 years since it all was lost here. this is where we spent our year is the best and the worst chapters in our lives. the family fled the district shortly before the career only for hire
a team to disappear just a few months later they looked everywhere for him and came into contact with the other person a says he reported having seen her teen being tortured to death one in custody. blimy 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 do not know is where he was buried. 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. 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 and you're ready and human rights association i.h.t. provide legal support for the saturday mother's unity is chairing today's meeting which acknowledges also attending on the edge serjeant's of a legal methods. to have been a lot of cases of people being coerced into spying on others. to talk to so judge each year they primarily target young people who are active in their community. by threatening them promising the money taken out all being arrested for no reason. us from a bigot. who said in your letter he 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. . 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. 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 a new ladies association has documented over 200 similar cases across the country there's often the caped large up until the late 1990 s. people being disappeared while in police 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 i get it it was said that. 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 journalist 12 years ago to the day turkish army and her on think were shot dead in broad daylight here in the shish li district of istanbul a pal knows his family while. i listed it easy like us their family in mourning and those families need supports. i.g.b. live in my leisure time and again 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 the new front 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 as it did in. wider regional unfortunately the history of turkey is full of murders and. massacres where the culprits were never identified or brought to justice. drew out of 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 are still panesar it. the speeches include appears to the government to take action. on. iran to the u.s.
in the time since rods death turkey has become even more dangerous for journalists and not just for journalists not 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 a threat of being arrested 5 sitting with it in the. us. to. be. here she took part in the weekly sessions on can attest 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. 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 harness 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 a year. 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. so this 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. on. the book sure a lot but i've already had a quick rounds of. oh yeah. i. 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. need he 1st had the idea many years ago but kept putting it off. if found excuses and shelved his plans but it should us that he would write it one day all quote i've 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 cognitive and what is now pretty used to something quite wonderful. the book tells the story of
heritance formative years his political activism on the day of his disappearance. he waits with a bomb on a cafe outside the court building while the hearing text place. must all be leaders good good newspaper what's under huge pressure back then the authorities try to drown in the management of legal proceedings hundreds of them actually 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 it was only a symbolic gesture but not for the government they immediately launched legal proceedings against us. if the religious ceremony they have understood now they're demanding we be handed tough sentences since all of these. did not even need to be because if it goes to jail of course the visit him a cutie what else can i do it is for you to. get out here today because i'd rather
see him as a free man one more time. much joking aside of course the happy isn't convicted of killing. her chose not to attend the hearing and i put delaying the judge's ruling . it's a tense wait. denver rock 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 hours. 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. to church 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 add ons 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. thank. you so called it is to goose the rule 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. would give 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 vote is seen as a barometer of anyone's popularity and last year's constitutional changes that gave him sweeping new powers study was done is extremely important including the central be your district stroker this is where the kid 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 telly one mounts as it becomes clear that the k.p.
has lost the capital ankara. the opposition is gaining an estimable 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 in is point 2 percent ahead but they're not publishing the real results we want. the mood at the t.v. station becomes increasingly upbeat now sees hope for the future truckload of you only get out of you will be able this is a huge blow to the current government especially given the young men's pressure surrounding the selection of the city. this isn't the opposition got hardly any media exposure only from stations like ours was but despite that pressure and almost all t.v. stations and newspapers telling the government along 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
all right only if. then the state news agency stops updating its results for a stumble the final outcome is not revealed until the next morning the opposition among istanbul with a way for thin majority of the ruling a k p party is over whether 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 the dispute over the election results has dampened for ups hopes of a more relaxed backdrop for the trial. to get able to trials 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. because. 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 become exit 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. of mine over. the hearing begins cameras are not permitted inside the courtroom even on the card or filming is limited to smartphones. to. 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 still living. among those given for rock moral support is high profile
investigative journalist truck. image you've still failed to get rid of me. maybe at the next trial. all. the rocks mother happens to give them 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 with the children. hopefully she won't find out in the news yet i'll bet it will was there. any reason to think you would want as our time
for 38 years we've been victims of injustice mediation we've been through hell we've lost somebody brother. already seen it move recently we've spent our lives fighting for justice and today was just the latest example of the law to keep your job but 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 we just get it down montague's we just. but another setback was to come.
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