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ISTANBUL (DIHA) – Saturday Mothers asked 265th times missing and perpetrators in front of Galatasaray High School. 265th meeting was dedicated to 139 Armenian intellectuals who had been killed during genocide on 24 April 1915.
The week of 265th action of Saturday Mothers was dedicated to 139 Armenian intellectuals who had been killed during genocide on 24 April 1915 by Ottoman Empires soldiers organized by Ittihat Terraki.
The Galatasaray High School witnessed of 265th protests of Saturday Mothers who gathered to ask missing’ fate and bring perpetrators on trial.
The same banner for 263 weeks written on “Perpetrators have been known, Where are missings” has been opened and photographs of disappeared carried. The numerous NGOs also supported the gathering which dedicated to 139 Armenian intellectuals who had been killed during genocide on 24 April 1915.
Relatives of missing read the press release; “Dominated approach of the state was on Ittihat and Terraki’s secret organization Teşkilat-i Mahsusa’s hands. Today, it is equal with the Special War Office and its sniper organization JITEM that successor of same policy of kidnapping or disappearing of opposite people. 95 years ago 220 Armenian intellectuals had been arrested and exiled out of Istanbul to Anatolia. It is known that 81 of them had been killed but there were no news heard from 139 since then.”
Leman Yurtsever who read the press release asked; “What was happened to 139 Armenian intellectuals, why 81 of them were killed. When are you going to open the archives? Killing under custody is still going on Turkey since then. When is going to be ended?”
On the other hand, Party of Oppressed People members and managers left carnations the place where Armenian writer and activist Hrant Dink was killed.
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