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For three years from 1995 to 1998 relatives of people who "disappeared" in police custody in Turkey held a weekly vigil in central Istanbul, demanding that the authorities account for the fate of their loved ones.

They were known as the Saturday Mothers, since they gathered every Saturday at midday holding pictures of their "disappeared" sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, brothers. Each time they met, a press announcement was read out detailing the case of one of the "disappeared", but otherwise the vigil was intended to be held in silence.

During the time that the vigils were held, the relatives encountered police harassment, ill-treatment, detention and prosecution.

Their plight attracted considerable attention in Turkey and internationally. Their courageous and determined stand helped turn back the wave of "disappearances" which reached a peak in 1994.

From May 1998, however, the Saturday Mothers faced heavy-handed police repression and were unable to continue their vigil.

(Source: Amnesty International)
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~lobof Aug 21, 2011
Great work..
It's really nice to see an artistic reaction to what happened back then..
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~CrunchBandicoot Apr 19, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Getting kidnapped (and probably murdered) is one of my greatest fears. Imagine how it is for that to become a reality for numerous innocent Turks :(
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~sercan192 Jun 1, 2010  Student Writer
its really weird to see the only black pages of my homelands around the web.I guess Israel has more of that pages but for somereason none dares to represent them.
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~Dragoonfliy Mar 2, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
While I'm sorry to say I don't know much about the situation in Turkey, you've really helped capture that terrifying feeling of having someone taken away from you. It's one of those images that works in any repressive situation, any country. Well done.
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~New-0-World-0-0rder Aug 16, 2009
It's seems that police are doing their job taking all the innocents to prison for no reason that facts still remands if you were a cop who is controlling you? the chief? I don't know...
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~DrGM Aug 16, 2009
you got NO idea about the police in Egypt ...
Turkish police-men are pure angels in comparison :D
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