Saturday Mothers gathered for 327th times in Ýstanbul to commemorate the forcibly disappeared people of Turkey and ask the government to find those responsible and bring them before court. The meeting in front of Galatasaray High School was more crowded than usual because of the 18th anniversary of the Madimak Massacre in Sivas.

The meeting was dedicated to Hasan Ocak’s father Hýdýr Ocak, who lost his life last year and victims of the Madýmak Massacre. Father Ocak had devoted his life to the Saturday Mothers’ action after his son Hasan Ocak was killed by police.

Zeynep Altýok, daughter of Metin Altýok who was burnt to death in Madýmak Massacre on July 2, 1993 in Sivas; Arat Dink, son of Hrant Dink, who was killed by deep-state force on January 19, 2007 in Ýstanbul; Özge Mumcu, son of journalist, Uður Mumcu who was murdered by bomb in his car on January 24, 1993 in Ankara; and writers, actress and producers attended in the meeting.

Altýok read a poem about the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ‘Mothers with white scurf’ written by Behçet Aysan, who was also burnt to death during the Madýmak Massacre and added the massage send by Eren Aysan, daughter of poet Behçet Aysan another victim in the massacre.

In addition, there was another Saturday Mothers (in Kurdish Dayikên Þemiyê) in Cizre, a district of Þýrnak, gathered 23rd times. The Mothers in Cizre dedicate the meeting to Ömer Güven, who was shot and burnt by soldiers in 1992 on his way from Cizre to Þýrnak.