Following the call of the IHD , Saturday sit-ins have been started a couple of weeks ago in different cities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. On February 21, 2009, the 204th action took place. At the actions taking place first of all in Amed and Istanbul, Adana, Mugla, Ankara, Antep, Hatay, Izmir, Eskisehir and many other cities, the mass carried pictures of hundreds of disappeared and demanded the conviction of those responsible for forced disappearances.{divide}

In Istanbul the families of the disappeared gathered in front of Galatasaray High school. At the action, a story of one disappeared person was told as every week. The families carried a banner read "It is clear who the murderers are, but where are the disappeared?" and dedicated their action to the doctor and member of IHD Hasan Kaya and chairman of IHD Elazig branch Metin Can, who both had been disappeared in 1993 by JITEM and killed through torture and whose bodies had been found later on in the region Dersim.

While the sit-in in Ankara was dedicated to Hasan Ocak, who had become the symbol of the struggle against forced disappearance under arrest, in Adana the following was said at the action: "The release of the generals imprisoned in connection with the Ergenekon trial shows that Turkey does not have the intention to face its past."

On February 23, the families of the disappeared and human rights defenders went from Amed to Silopi and applied to the Silopi Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Silopi, Sirnak, demanding the excavation of the BOTAS wells. When this demand was rejected, the mass realised a sit-in in front of the wells. The families of the disappeared and IHD activists carried banners saying "The mother of Ergenekon is Tansu Ciller, who is the father?" and "You will have to face with the bones of our deaths" and in the statement made in their name it was said that they got to know that some of those killed by JITEM had been buried in the BOTAS wells. The mass demanded the immediate start of the excavation of the wells and the conviction of those responsible for forced disappearance