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Istanbul police prevent ‘Saturday mothers’ demonstration

By DW
03 September 2018   |   2:41 pm
For decades, the "Saturday mothers" have been holding peaceful vigils every weekend in Istanbul to protest against the disappearance of their relatives in the 1980s and 1990s. Now the police have started preventing them from gathering.

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