“A teacher Ayse” was a symbolic figure for the situation of freedom of expression in the country: they denounced, in a TV-show the conflict in the Kurdish regions and had to be with your Baby in the prison.
Ayse Celik
The “Beyaz Show” for a long time was one of the most popular Talk-shows on Turkish TV – hardly anyone in Turkey was Friday evening, family-friendly entertainment show to be missed. Also in January of 2016 gathered on the brown Couch of the Show, for a leisurely spin. The guests amuse themselves left out on the jokes of the presenter – to shake with Laughter. However, the good mood will be dampened in an unexpected way. A teacher who had applied previously as a phone guest, is switched from the Eastern Anatolian Kurdish metropolis of Diyarbakir in the Live broadcast.
“Do you know what is going on with us here in the East?”, she begins her appeal. “The Silence must end. People should not die, the children die, the mothers should not cry anymore,” complains Ayse Celik. The young teacher would like to draw the attention on the fighting in the Southeast of Turkey, find your opinion too little attention in the Public. As of the summer of 2015, it came to clashes between the Turkish army and the PKK. The banned terrorist organization occupied cities, declared them Autonomous zones. The Turkish military responded with a major offensive.
Ayse Celik with her daughter, theone
“Terrorist Propaganda”
The caller is. in the Turkish Public quickly, “Ayse Ögretmen,” English “teacher Ayse”, and a symbol for excesses in the Turkish judicial Although the audience sees her expression positive, there is even a thunderous applause. The Turkish judiciary sees in her statement: “terrorist Propaganda” and punished the teacher draconian: 15 months detention in a prison in Diyarbakir, the Locals often refer to as “the hell of Diyarbakir”.
But the judgment is not just you alone. You must take your Baby with you to the prison. The images have burned many of the Turks: how Celik commencing in April 2018 your sentence, hesitant to the prison gate in Diyarbakir approaches, on the Arm of your eight-month-old infant.
Ayse Celik sat in April 2018, over two weeks in jail
“I have committed no crime. I have just brought my deepest sympathy. For children (in conflict situations) are particularly vulnerable.” You would still stand by your words, you are the German wave on your attorney to align. Celiks lawyer Mahsuni Karaman of the DW reported on the degrading conditions of detention in prison. In a cell that was actually intended for 12 people, you would bring the parents of eight children and 51 adults. Because there are insufficient sleeping accommodations, would have to share several prisoners to a bed. Due to these conditions, the children were constantly sick, so the lawyer.
Hundreds of women with children in prison
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Due to the stressful conditions for your Baby Celik opposes the court’s judgment. With success, you will be temporarily dismissed. But since last week, the judgment is final, legally binding, you must again behind bars. She decides – Willy-nilly – to leave the child with the grandmother. “I miss my child very much,” she says of the DW.
The case of the “teacher Ayse” not only shows the difficult situation of freedom of expression in Turkey. He also illustrates another Problem: hundreds of Turkish women sit with their children and newborn babies behind bars. According to the Turkish human rights Association IHD 668 newborns under the age of three, and 2,491 children between twelve and seventeen years were in the last year with their mothers in prison. The case of the teacher Ayse Celik is reminiscent of the fate of the German-Turkish woman Mesale Tolu. You spent with your two-year-old son for several months in Turkish custody. In her newly published book, “My son stays with me,” reported the 35-Year-old of your experiences from this time.