First of all, I want to talk a little about my family.

I was born as the second of 5 children of a worker father and a housewife mother in a small village in Gediz district of Kütahya province. I completed my education under difficult conditions and became a police officer after passing the police exams. 

In the 14th year of my career, I was suspended on 28 July, using so-called coup attempt in our country on 15 July 2016 as an excuse. I was dismissed from my profession on September 1, 2016. Our whole lives, including my 3 children and my wife, were turned upside down. 

But life was going on and I had to take care of my family. I applied for jobs in various places. But when they learned that I had been dismissed by decree law, all employers rejected my job application, saying that they could not hire me, otherwise they might be subject to investigation. 

I started driving a taxi upon the offer of a relative. After 6 months, I was detained and arrested on false grounds. I stayed in prison for 1 year. During this period, my family experienced great suffering and economic difficulties. At the first hearing, the court sentenced me to 6 years and 10 months and released me. I continued driving a taxi again. 9 months later, I was detained again with a different excuse and was released after 7 days of detention by the decision of the prosecutor's office. Meanwhile, our family order and the entire psychology of family members were disrupted. My wife and I broke up. 

I started trying to be both a mother and a father to my two daughters, 17 and 14 years old, and a 12-year-old son. 

My children were excluded by their friends both at school and in the environment we lived in. We were already treated like the plague. 

I could not hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties. I made the necessary objections myself through all necessary legal means. The Supreme Court overturned the sentence given by the first instance court because the witnesses were not heard in court. I was retried and the court made the same decision, but I appealed again. The Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Public Prosecutor's Office requested that my sentence be approved. 

We had only one choice left, and that was to go abroad. I was banned from traveling abroad. Therefore, there was no possibility of me leaving the country by normal means. 

Going abroad illegally was very expensive and I did not have enough money; For this reason, I had to sell the house I bought with my 20 years of savings. One night, we crossed the (Meriç) Maritsa River in a (plastic)rubber makeshift boat, and after a 4-hour journey filled with danger at every moment, with about 30 people. 

In the end we managed to cross to Greece with my three children. We were finally free. I was not going to go to prison, I was free from the anxiety that was gnawing at my brain, what if I went to prison, to whom would I entrust my children, who would take care of them. 

This is my story…

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I stayed in prison for 1 year. 9 months after being released from prison, I was detained again with a different excuse and was released after 7 days of detention by the decision of the prosecutor's office. Meanwhile, our family order and the entire psychology of family members were disrupted. My wife and I broke up.

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 I Completed My Education Under Difficult Conditions And Became A Police Officer 

 Is it not enough...

Like nearly 200 thousand people; I was dismissed from my job at TRT(Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) by Decree Law No. 672, without any investigation or even a single line of my statement being taken.

I wasn't allowed to do my profession.

My 30-year-old rights were confiscated.

I was dismissed on the grounds that I worked for a short period at Zaman Newspaper 30 years ago [Such an offense(!) does not exist in our constitution]. Yet, General Manager Hüseyin Gülerce,Chief Columnist Fehmi Koru, Editor-in-Chief Nabi Avcı, writers Yasin Aktay, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Nihal Bengisu Karaca, İbrahim Kalın, etc… were not subjected to a single investigation.

In other words, as per the lists prepared years ago; Poor Anatolian children were subjected to massacre in a theater of justice. Those who walked arm in arm with the mentioned structure in the past were rewarded. Since we did not have a photo taken in Pennsylvania, the path to prison was shown to us.

During a prison visit my mother could not recognize me, and soon after, she passed away in sorrow from missing her child. I only learned of my mother's death the night I was released. Though I shouted the injustice in the courtrooms, everyone turned a deaf ear and a blind eye. Because; the sword in the hand of blindfolded Themis, the symbol of justice, was broken and the scales were distorted.

While those who came to power with the cry of  Caliph Omar's justice were committing injustice; so-called Muslims did not object even once in the face of the oppression, instead, they even supported and applauded the opression, Leaving no justice nor Omar!

Before July 15; I was exiled to 23 provinces and 166 districts. I shouted in every environment that I was oppressed, because I never betrayed my homeland and nation. I was neither involved in the coup nor was I a party to it, at first; I reacted by saying, "I will not salute a tank whose barrel is pointed at people." In fact, the issue had nothing to do with the coup at all. The main issue was, so to speak, the wolf devouring the lamb and finding an excuse to do so.

During this challenging period, I got to know my fair-weather friends and true friends very well. To use an analogy, I recognized the crocodile tears of fake friends and relatives who, like a fox making plans, hunted with a wolf, and mourned with the sheep. And there are those who snickered, saying, “serves you right,” “You deserves this,” I noted them too. It is incomprehensible when you don't fall, I fell and then I experienced it.

The waves blew hard but did not leave dust and dirt on the ship.

During this period, I did not bow to anyone, I did not walk around with my head down, and I did not clown any mortal.

I sought not mercy but justice, but it was not to be…I couldn't do anything other than say, "Let your position and the world be yours, use it to the fullest."

I said God, I swallowed hard, it snowed on my hearth(stove) in the August heat, and I froze...

This winter will pass, too, but I will never forget the frost I had.

Those who cook food from the fire in other people's houses, my sly friends who keep silent and support the oppression, you are also accomplices of this oppression, and I will never forget you!

I couldn't do it, I couldn't succeed, it didn't work, I couldn't spin like a pinwheel! But I left an honorable stance to my true friends, family and children.

Is not it enough!

August 2022
(From those who crossed Meriç-river Maritsa)

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During a prison visit my mother could not recognize me, and soon after, she passed away in sorrow from missing her child.
 I only learned of my mother's death the night I was released. 

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I Was Dismissed From My Job at TRT

 I was born in a cute and small city in Anatolia. My family raised me and my siblings with devotion. My siblings and I have always been hard-working students. My brother and I graduated from law school, and my sister graduated from economics faculty. My sister and I both took the exams and became government officials. 

I have always tried to do my job with dedication and justice. 

After the so-called coup attempt on July 15, 2016, my husband and I were dismissed from our profession without question. Our house was suddenly raided by the police, all our belongings were searched for non-existent criminal items. Of course there was nothing, but it made me very sad that our house was searched as if we were criminals. There was no evidence in the file opened against us.

The rulers of the state had prepared a list of civil servants they would dismiss from the state, long before the so-called coup attempt of July 15. On the day of the so-called coup attempt and afterwards, my husband and thousands of people were dismissed from their jobs and detained. For most people, the reason for being detained and arrested was simply to be on the list prepared by some bad people running the state. This list was a list of slander prepared entirely unfairly and unlawfully. Everyone they added to the previously prepared list became members of the armed terrorist organization that tried to destroy the state with the so-called coup attempt organized by the government rulers and implemented by using some soldiers. No one was given the slightest right of real defence. 

Those who prepared the list chose the judges who would make arrest verdicts and thousands of people were first detained under inhumane conditions and then arrested. A group of evil people ruling the state prepared and implemented their evil plans very successfully.

Based on this, they detained my husband and then arrested him. Our separation with my husband lasted nearly 2 years. At that time I was on trial without arrest. While my husband was in prison, we had the chance to meet from behind the glass one day a week and open meeting in prison only one day a month. My psychology was very worn out, it was very difficult to go to the meetings, wait there for hours and then be subjected to a body search every time. 

We were suddenly declared terrorists in a way we never thought possible, and we became members of an armed terrorist organization without even knowing how to use a gun. 

We were like a plague in society, we couldn't tell anyone about our situation. People were so deceived by newspaper and television news that they did not realize that we were being slandered. They released my husband after 23 months of prison. After my husband was released from prison, he started working as an unregistered driver because we had no possibility of finding registered employment. He also got into his second university in Turkey and started studying.While we were trying to start a new life again, the trial against us was completed and we were sentenced to prison. We were either going to prison or going abroad. Like everyone else in our situation, we were not allowed to go abroad legally. 

That's why it was necessary to use illegal ways if we were going to leave. Going abroad illegally was difficult both financially and emotionally. We knew that people had many problems on the road, some were subjected to physical violence, and some died by drowning, but the years we would spend in prison seemed even worse to us, so we risked everything and set off with my husband on a cold winter day. 

We experienced some problems on the way. We couldn't go to the Greek side right away, we had to stay out one night with very limited supplies. Since it was winter and we did not have proper equipment, we were in danger of freezing. Afterwards, thank God, we were able to go to the Greek side. We had to stay in Greece for a year because it was the Corona period. Then we came to the Netherlands.

I started studying Dutch just a month after I came to the Netherlands. My aim was to learn Dutch immediately, get a job and earn my own living. My language learning journey lasted about a year and a half. During this time, I worked in many volunteer jobs. I had a very good Dutch friend whom I met at one of these jobs and still see him. With his reference, I got the job I am currently working at. Although understanding Dutch legal texts was a bit difficult at first but I learned it over time and with hard work. 

Dutch people are very helpful and friendly. I love my job, my colleagues and the Netherlands. I am so grateful to these kind-hearted people.

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I started studying Dutch just a month after I arrived in the Netherlands. My language learning journey lasted about a year and a half, and I got a job right after. Dutch people are very helpful and friendly. I love my job, my colleagues and the Netherlands. I am very grateful to these kind-hearted people.
