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- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- ISSN
- 1938-8020
Abstract
Sovereignty as Erasure Rethinking Enforced Disappearances banu bargu Every Saturday precisely at noon, a crowd of mothers gathers in front of the gates of Lycée de Galatasaray, a prominent francophone high school situated at the center of Istanbul’s bustling downtown district in close proximity to Taksim Square. These mothers, with pictures of their sons and daughters, stand in silence, with resolve but no resolution to their demand for justice. These are the moth- ers of the disappeared in Turkey, mothers of bodies that have van- ished, or more accurately, bodies that have been made to vanish. These mothers do not know whether their sons and daughters are dead or live; their fates are uncertain. They remain unaccounted for, except on the rare occasion when their remains are found in some unmarked pit, anonymous or mass grave. These mothers, accompanied by men and children who are the relatives of the disappeared, as well as a handful of activist law- yers and human- rights defenders, hold red carnations and often wear white headscarves that have become symbolic of their relent- less search for their children. Some of them have been searching for over thirty years, since the 1980 military coup. Others
Journal
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 9, 2014