Monday, March 19, 2018

I'm Orphan...

September 18th, 2017

Russia, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Macedonia, Serbia… In this temporary refugee camp, people from different countries came together. Except those came from Russia, all of them came through Turkey. I wonder what happened to our law of visa and immigration… Turned into a law of stopping by?

Everyone knows a couple of Turkish words.

Syrians really love our president. Some talk about a bag of coal, some talk about a box of food. They also talk about how they left Turkey with a boat, hungry for 5 days. I don’t know why but they pray God for mercy for him.

They always ask and talk about a special topic: Turkish TV dramas, actors, actresses, and singers. I barely and recently understand how Polat Alemdaroğlu and İbrahim Tatlıses helped our country’s introduction.

An Iraqi young sings the same song whenever he sees me as a salute. The Emperor İbrahim Tatlıses’s touching song…

I’m fatherless, I’m fatherless, I’m fatherless vaay.
I’m motherless, I’m motherless, I’m fatherless vaay.
If you are riding the horse of sorrow,
Go slowly go slowly I’m fatherless vaay.
Don’t cry don’t cry, come don’t cry.
Days will pass days will pass and this will end,
Open your eyes open your eyes vaay

Here is the original song.


…and I talk about Tuğba in my first refugee office interview. Tuğba, we forgot as our pain gets layered day by day… My dear friend lost her mind because of the torture she had faced in prison and the apprehension of her children. If they have taken me, my situation would be the same with her. I imagine with fear and say ‘my children would be orphans’ and my friend’s situation gives me the real image…

I walk through the night with orphan children’s cries…

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