This footage was filmed and produced 25 June 2022.

Riot police prevented a peaceful vigil by human rights defenders demonstrating on behalf of people who have been forcibly disappeared in Turkey. Police handcuffed and detained the head of the Human Rights Association, Öztürk Türkdoğan, prominent human rights lawyer, Eren Keskin, and several relatives of victims of enforced disappearances from the Saturday Mothers/People. The vigil convened today for the 900th time in Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square.

The video shows police detaining human rights defenders and relatives of disappeared people on Saturday Mothers in İstanbul, Turkey. Saturday Mothers and human rights defenders were detained and taken to the Istanbul Police Department.

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HDP İstanbul Milletvekili Züleyha Gülüm: "The current regime, which is a continuation of the mentality that takes our loved ones away from us, wants to take Galatasaray away from us, ignoring even its own laws. "Where are our loved ones?" Instead of responding to our cry with law and justice, they have been standing in front of us with batons, shields and gas for 4 years. It prohibits a square in the heart of Istanbul that is open to everyone, all Istanbulites, because we will not be there. They want to intimidate us with pressure, with the police, with the baton, with the court.”