On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a protest was held in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to ask for help to find abducted supporters of the Gulen Movement in the banishment process.
BOLD – After July 15, 6 Hizmet Movement followers were kidnapped by MIT and have been missing for months. While 4 of these people were handed over to the Police, Gökhan Türkmen, who has been missing for 204 days and Mustafa Yılmaz, who has been missing for 193 days, are still not found. Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who was kidnapped 24 days ago, is the last of the disappearances.
THEY PUT ON THEIR MASKS
The abductions of Hizmet volunteers with mafia-like methods and their families’ inability to contact them for months were protested in France. Many citizens supported the protest carried out by the Human Rights Defenders, shortly called HDR, in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Participants of the protest carried masks and photographs of the missing people.
A press release was read by HRD Secretary-General Oğuzhan Albayrak, both in Turkish and English, to request finding the missing people and bring them together with their families.