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Seeking justice for her son Nurettin Yedigöl, who was tortured and disappeared in custody following the 1980 military coup, Saturday Mother Zeycan Yedigöl has lost her life at the age of 90.
Saturday Mothers/People have announced her passing on their social media account. "We are deeply grieved that we have lost our Mother Zeycan, who seeked her son Nurettin Yedigöl disappeared in custody and justice for 39 years," the message has read and added:
"May you rest in peace, our Dear Mother Zeycan, your insistence on reaching Nurettin and justice is now entrusted to us. You did not forget, we will not forget. You did not give up, we will not give up."
The deceased body of Zeycan Yedigöl was sent from Bağcılar Djemevi in İstanbul to her hometown in Erzincan province on November 22.
Yedigöl previously sent a letter to the sit-in protests at Galatasaray Square in Beyoğlu on April 4, 2014 and said that "she would be a complainant against those who had made her son disappear in both worlds."
Who is Nurettin Yedigöl?He was born in Turkey's eastern province of Erzincan in 1954. Having spent his childhood in Yaylalar village in Erzincan, he went to the city center for his high-school education. He moved to İstanbul in 1974. While he was studying at the Faculty of Management there, he was an executive of the İstanbul High Student Association (İYÖD) in 1976-77. He then joined the Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit (MLSPB). How was he disappeared?Nurettin Yedigöl attended the wedding of his cousin in Çağlayan, İstanbul on April 10, 1981. He left the wedding on his own to go to the house where he stayed together with his friends. A day before, his friends were detained from this house in İdealtepe. When he went there after leaving the wedding, the police were waiting for him in the house. Days later, his brother Muzaffer Yedigöl went to the house; unable to find his elder brother there, he left a note. Seeing the note, Nurettin Yedigöl's roommate contacted Muzaffer Yedigöl and said that Nurettin had not come home for a long time. He added that he might have fled abroad. Muzaffer Yedigöl and his aunt-in-law went to the police station, the 1st Branch in Gayrettepe, to ask for Nurettin Yedigöl and left some cigarettes, money and underwear to be given to him. However, taking them first, the police then returned all of these, saying that there was no such person. His fate and whereabouts have been unknown since April 12, 1981. |
(RT/SD)
