Per Amnesty International’s report on enforced disappearances, published on 8th January 1997, and a book on the subject “Sımsıcaktı Elleri” (How snug were their hands), Mahmut Önerarı was a married father of four from the Lice district of Diyarbakır, who had moved to the city center due to frequent raids to his village resulting in his being taken into custody. According to witness accounts, on 8th December 1996, at around noon, he was forced into a white car by plainclothes men, who had told him that he had to go to the police station about a complaint made about him. When his family went to the said police station, they saw his photograph there and the officers confirmed that he had been placed under custody. Two weeks later, his dead body was discovered along with another man named Atilla Korkmaz, who had been taken from his workplace on 9th December by plainclothes men driving a white car with the same plate number as the one that had taken Mahmut. The family applied to the Diyarbakır Police Headquarter, the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the State Security Court and the Minister of Human Rights to no avail.