Manbij- The Turkish state has been threatening Syrian refugees to send them back to Syria for years. In the last two months, many Syrians have been deported from Türkiye to North and East Syria. About 115 Syrians have entered North and East Syria from Aoun Al-Dadat crossing in the last two months, the security sources in northeastern Syria told NuJINHA. NuJINHA spoke to a woman, who was forcibly deported from Türkiye with her family.

 ‘My children were starved’

“My spouse, I and my five children were forcibly deported by the Turkish state,” said Şirin İbrahim, who is originally from the city of Qamishlo (Qamishli). “In Türkiye, we used to live in the city of Mardin. We did not have a travel permit and it was used against us when we went to Istanbul. The Turkish soldiers arrested us and sent us to a camp in Kilis. They took all of our official documents from us. They even took my child's milk, medicine and towels from us and threw them in the trash can. We had to sleep outside for days. My children were starved for days. Then, they deported us from Türkiye.”

‘We faced all types of discrimination’

Şêrin İbrahim took shelter in Türkiye with her family for 12 years due to the Syrian civil war. “For 12 years, we faced racist policies in Türkiye,” she said. “Not only my family and I, but also all Syrian refugees faced such policies. We faced all types of discrimination in Türkiye.”

Syrian refugees who were forcibly deported from Türkiye told us that the Turkish soldiers had confiscated all their money and ID documents.