NEWS CENTRE (DİHA) - With the families of forcibly disappeared, the Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch sat for the 156th times in order to demand the responsible ones for the enforced disappearances to be found.
İHD Diyarbakır Branch Secretary Raci Bilici emphasized the need for truth commissions and said: "As we demand the disappeared to be found and the responsible ones to be tried, the government is continuing political and military operations and insists on massacres. This is no solution. The solution is to find out the truth, to deal with the problems in a democratic and peaceful way."

CHP (People's Republican Party) Assistant Chair and Istanbul MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu said the government needed to sign the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, to establish truth commissions, to remove time limitations over the cases of enforced disappearance and unidentified murders and to create a database in the lead of İHD and TİHV (Human Rights Foundation of Turkey).

"I repeat: The truth will hit them back in the face as a nightmare", said Tanrıkulu in the sitting protest dedicated this week to Recep Yenisoy who disappeared in 1982 after being kidnapped by plain clothes police officers.
"Find the disappeared, try those responsible" demonstration was also held in Batman where İHD Batman Branch President Nihat Ekinci said the government needed to take action and hear the demands of hundreds of people like Hanım Tosun with whom Human Rights Research Committee of the Parliament had a meeting last week. Ekinci also condemned the KCK (Kurdistan Communities' Union) operations.

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