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<\/p>\nA 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
\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
\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
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
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
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
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