The relatives of the disappeared revolutionaries and Kurdish patriots started on June 12 from the traditional venue of actions of the Saturday mothers , the Galatasaray Square in Istanbul for a seven-days "March of Justice" to Ankara. The march starting with the slogan "we go to make our voice heard to those not hearing us", stopped in Gebze, Izmit, Bursa and Eskisehir organising different actions and press statements and reached Ankara on June 19. Families from the Kurdish provinces, where disappearance under police detention happened very frequently, started off to Ankara from Diyarbakir.{divide} The relatives of the disappeared went to Ankara in order to take their demands to parliament and organised a sit-in there on June 20, supported by various revolutionary and democratic organisations. The relatives of the disappeared participated in "the witnesses speak, the realities meet" in Ankara organised by the Initiative for Reality and Justice and underlined the need to grow the struggle with new means and methods. They spoke about their relatives assassinated in police murders, lynch attempts, contra-guerrilla massacres and launched the demand to sentence those responsible. The activities of the relatives of the disappeared in Ankara will continue with sit-ins before the parliament and different meetings and discussions in the parliament.
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