Turkish Police Crackdown on Landmark Anniversary of Mothers' Protest for the Disappeared
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- By Dorian Jones
In Turkey, a group known as the "Saturday Mothers” marked the 700th week of gathering in Istanbul to protest the forced disappearances and political murders in Turkey during the military coup-era of 1980s and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict of the 1990s. But as Dorian Jones reports, Turkish authorities broke up the vigil Saturday.