Tuesday, March 27, 2018

French Fries


March 20th, 2018

Our first days in the refugee camp… Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were entertaining times for my children but true nightmares for me...

You only have 90 minutes for eating in the camp. People from around the world are getting in the line for meal. None of them is similar with the other. All of them are full of energy, including my children…

Sometimes cartoons are showed on TV at meal times. Although, children keep running from a side to another. They are having lots of fun but it makes me exhausted as someone may get bothered of my children.

They don’t eat, they just play. Sometimes they want to eat but I don’t want to let as I don’t know if the meal is halal or not. Sometimes the meal is something they love, that time they want it over and over. Sometimes I get tired of my son’s loud voice saying ‘’I want French fries! I want pasta!’’

If someone not from the camp invites us for a dinner and asks what children would like, I directly say ‘French fries’. Nur gave an interview to Yeni Asya online newspaper and told what she saw and lived in the prison in Turkey. Children in prison with their mothers want French fries, mothers could do nothing and just keep being patient. Also children, growing up under the looks of other prisoners saying ‘shut up’.

In cells, 40 people live. Even though they are for 25 people. 38th, 39th, and 40th individuals are children. Crying at night, noisy in day, children try to grow up; mothers try to stand still.

On the other hand, mothers hankering their children. Some could take one of the children and left the other, some couldn’t do neither. Some are about to lose their sanity. There are only two things they can get calm with: tranquilizers and prayers.

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