This song is for the Saturday Mothers. The 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. According Human Rights Association, between 1992 and 1996, 792 state-forced dissapearances and murders have been reported in Kurdish regions in Turkey, with many more missing persons who remain unreported
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:43:42 +0000