Gülhan, who said she worked as a manager at an association in İzmir dedicated to integrating women into social life and assisting female students, described her experience: “Following the coup attempt, our institutions were shut down in major police raids. We quickly moved out of our house, and I cried a lot only once during that time. My neighbor across the street, an Alevi woman named Songül, witnessed everything we went through. We were living in an Alevi neighborhood next to a cemevi [Alevi place of worship]. She saw everything, and on our last night moving out, I stayed at her house. She hugged me for minutes and cried, saying, ‘This is a tremendous injustice, like fate, like death.’ That was the only day I cried during that period, and we were forced to leave our locations in a rush.”The video below details Gülhan’s journey from Turkey to the Netherlands:
The Gül family and a child’s prayer: Gülhan’s journey from Turkey to the Netherlands
