Saturday Mothers 1000 Weeks at Galatasaray Square

1000 weeks... In other words, approximately 10 million 80 thousand minutes. 168 thousand hours. 7 thousand days. 229 months. 19 years... Saturday Mothers, Turkey's undisputed longest-running and still ongoing action, is leaving its 1000th week behind. This work is about those who found themselves in Galatasaray Square to make their voices heard, and those who had to.
And of course, the reason they took action was their losses...

“I am also a Saturday Mother. I am one of those who believe that motherhood is not only about birth. That is why I am already in the place of those mothers emotionally. When I am in that situation, I must be afraid of a dark, endless silence that is as scary as an abyss... The power to resist despite this pressure is motherhood itself...”
Sezen Aksu

“Remember Fehmi Tosun.”
U2

“Let them arrest me too. If I want to be in Galatasaray while I can predict what might happen to me, it is because I am afraid of losing my humanity.”
Gulriz Sururi

“Do any of you have a missing child? Then you may not know their troubles. I don’t know concretely either. Because my child is not missing either. But not knowing doesn’t mean not understanding. They were clubbed, stoned, booed but they didn’t give up. Because their child was missing. I don’t know what I can do but my heart aches, I know that.”
Mujdat Gezen

“The Galatasaray sit-ins are a call. Do you respect universal law, universal human rights? Do you believe that these are indispensable? Then your place is with us. Then you are also a Saturday person, you should add your voice to ours.”
Nur Sureer