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

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.