Turkey allows decades-old mothers' vigil after five-year ban

Members of the "Saturday Mothers" group, consisting of relatives of victims of enforced disappearances in Turkey, held a vigil in ...

Members of the "Saturday Mothers" group, consisting of relatives of victims of enforced disappearances in Turkey, held a vigil in Istanbul without police intervention for the first time since 2018. The group's protest, which seeks justice for missing persons and punishment for the perpetrators, has been met with bans, dispersals, and arrests by the police in the past. However, the Constitutional Court recently ruled that the group's right to organize demonstrations had been violated.

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