Turkish rights activists protes

[kurdeng at aps.nl]

From: tabe at newsdesk.aps.nl
Subject: Re: Turkish rights activists protest `"disappearances"
Reply-To: kurdeng at aps.nl

ue, 27 Jun 1995 10:29:36 -0800

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Turkish rights activists protest ``disappearances

    ANKARA, June 24 (Reuter) - Turkish human rights activists
protesting alleged disappearances in police custody left dozens
of shoes in an Ankara park on Saturday after police blocked them
from approaching the Interior Ministry, activists said.
    Husnu Ondul, general secretary of the Human Rights
Association (HRA), told Reuters by telephone police stopped the
activists four times and refused them permission to go to the
Interior Ministry building.
    ``Instead we left the shoes in the park, where the families
of those missing called for the return of their children,''
Ondul said.
    According to the HRA, 328 people allegedly disappeared in
police custody last year, compared with 23 in 1993. Some of
these people -- often leftists or Kurdish activists -- later
turn up mysteriously murdered.
Reut09:20 06-24-95

Reuter N:Copyright 1995, Reuters News Service