A loss story of 26 years: They left no memory of my father

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  • 11:38 11 January 2020
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DİYARBAKIR - Kılıçlı Village located in Diyarbakır, Lice was burned down by soldiers, all villagers were taken into custody and later all except Mehmet Can Ayşin was released. His daughter Aynur Ayşin says: "They left no memory of my father. We will not give up until we found the bones of my father."
 
In the 570th week, the sit-in by families and human rights defenders in Diyarbakır struggling to find and prosecute the perpetrators of unsolved murders and disappearances in the region continues on its 570th week. Mehmet Can Ayşin is one of them. He was detained by the soldiers on May 8, 1994 when their whole village was burned down by the gendermerie. The soldiers detained everyone in the village and released them 2 days later but Ayşin never came . Ayşin's daughter Aynur is asking the authorities of his father's whereabouts for 26 years.
 
Reminding that everyone, including children and women, was removed from the village during the raid on May 8, Ayşin stated that all the men in the village was taken into custody that day and were brought to Lice. Ayşin said: "They took my father to a boarding school in Lice. We kept searching. We went to the police station on a holiday eve, they told us that the prosecutor was on leave and that they will release my father when he comes back. He was not released so we went there again. This time they told us that they did not have him and no one in that name was taken into custody."
 
'I DON'T FEEL LIKE MY FATHER IS DEAD IN THAT 25 YEARS'
 
Ayşin, stating that they gave their statements only twice in the last 25 years during the investigation, said no one was prosecuted as a result of that investigation. Ayşin underlined that the prosecutor asked them if they have actually seen his father taken in by the police, said the prosecutor demanded a proof that the villagers were taken into custody. Ayşin said: "They wanted us to prove things. They burned down our village. They chose my father as a victim. When they dissappeared my father, my elder brother was in the army. My brother worked in the construction and supported the family when he came back from the military. They left no memory of my father. My father's greatest memory for us was our home.  Soldiers burned the house he built with his own hands and tore his photographs. If our relative hadn't have a picture of my father, we wouldn't have a thing. I haven't felt like my father died in past 25 years. I feel he is alive and out there and come home one day. I know this is impossible but I can't accept it when somebody talks about his death. "
 
Adding to her words that all the cruelty and bullying were applied to the Kurds, Ayşin said: "They murdered, massacred, dissappeared and tortured us. They have no purpose but to destroy us. But they know very well that they can't end us by killing us. They have been trying that for ages. I have been asking the whereabouts of my father for the last 25 years with a picture of him in my hands. I attend the press statements Human's Rights Organization (İHD) holds. I will not give up until I find the bones of my father."
 
 

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