{"id":287966,"date":"2017-01-25T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287966"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T12:00:05","slug":"5-children-abandoned-in-front-of-prison-as-mother-detained-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287966","title":{"rendered":"5 children abandoned in front of prison as mother detained [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Monday on social media shows five children left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaving children alone in such a situation is against the Convention on the Rights of the Child and all related laws. We will follow this issue,\u201d said Mahmut Tanal, a deputy from the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) and a member of the Human Rights Commission in the Turkish Parliament, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone is guilty, of course they should be punished. But detaining a wife while visiting her husband in prison and as a result, leaving the children, one of them handicapped, alone is not compatible with conscience and the law or with ethics. What the video show is a humanitarian tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the video, a child opens the door of a car in the prison parking lot, showing his brothers crying, and says in tears, \u201cWe are five brothers, left alone. We have a handicapped brother. I commend those people to God\u2019s punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reaction mounted after the video was shared on social media by Tanal. People say similar incidents have occurred since a witch-hunt was launched against the G\u00fclen movement by President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) following a failed coup attempt on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>After the story broke, journalist Mahir Zeynalov, deported from Turkey due to critical tweet in February 2014, launched a fundraising campaign under this link for the five siblings who were left in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287968 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5-children-abandoned-in-front-of-prison-as-mother-detained.jpeg\" alt=\"5-children-abandoned-in-front-of-prison-as-mother-detained\" width=\"696\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBsbNDWuZZM\" width=\"1366\" height=\"638\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tanal brought a similar case to Parliament on Jan. 4, when a mother was detained as part of an investigation into the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, while her twins were left in an intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are mothers among us. Can a baby in an intensive care unit be separated from its mother? What kind of mentality does that? Which judicial system accepts that? Which ideology embraces that?\u201d said Tanal in his speech at the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Meryem, whose given name only was reported in the Turkish media, gave birth to twins by C-section in a hospital in Konya two days earlier and was detained by police despite hospital reports stating that she should not travel and was taken to Aksaray from Konya in a police car.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports in the Turkish media, Meryem\u2019s brothers and father and the husbands of her sisters were also jailed over links to the G\u00fclen movement. Other of Meryem\u2019s family members are now collecting breast milk from her in Aksaray and bringing it to the Konya hospital to feed the twins in the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,218 people were detained, with 572 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the G\u00fclen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey\u2019s Interior Ministry on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly denying having any role in the putsch, Fethullah G\u00fclen called for an international investigation into the coup attempt, but President Erdo\u011fan \u2014 calling the coup attempt \u201ca gift from God\u201d \u2014 and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.<\/p>\n<p>More than 135,000 people have been purged from state bodies, in excess of 90,000 detained and over 43,000 have been arrested since the coup attempt. Arrestees include journalists, judges, prosecutors, police and military officers, academics, governors and even a comedian. Critics argue that lists of G\u00fclen sympathizers were drawn up prior to the coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>A report prepared by the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (IntCen) has revealed that although Erdo\u011fan and the Turkish government immediately put the blame for the July 15 failed coup attempt on the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, the coup attempt was staged by a range of Erdo\u011fan\u2019s opponents due to fears of an impending purge, according to a report by The Times newspaper last week.<\/p>\n<p>The European intelligence contradicts the Turkish government\u2019s claim that Turkish-Islamic scholar G\u00fclen, a cleric living in self-exile whose views inspired the movement, was behind the plot to overthrow the Turkish government.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: by TurkeyPurge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Monday on social media shows five children left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison. \u201cLeaving children alone in such a situation is against the Convention on the Rights of the Child and all related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[3421,2072,1308],"class_list":["post-287966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-5-children-abandoned","tag-prison","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}