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Three “difficult and painful” days spent by Syrian refugee Rama Selo at the Zeytinburnu district police station in Istanbul, Turkey, and despite being pregnant and in critical health, that did not help her. On the contrary, what actually happened was a contradiction. Especially since his arrest by the Turkish police came after he entered one of the state hospitals of the Turkish government, to receive immediate treatment.
In the past two days, Al-Selo, 23, captured the conversation of Syrian refugees in various Turkish states, because his story in Turkish hospitals was a shock from the way he had coped, first at the “Hospital State ”in the Zeytinburnu area and then when she was transferred to the police station, after her arrest based on a“ malicious invitation ”made by Turkish nurses.
‘Shocking’ details
According to the “Al-Hurra website” that communicates with people familiar with the story of the Syrian refugee (who requested anonymity), it began after the departure of the slaves from one of the Syrian medical centers in Istanbul when a Syrian doctor informed him of the need to go immediately to a Turkish hospital, in order to undergo surgery to remove the deceased fetus, more than four months ago.
Immediately after seeing the Syrian doctor, the Syrian woman, accompanied by her husband, went to the Sulaymaniyah Hospital in the Zeytinburnu area, to be shocked at the racist treatment she received from the Turkish nurses, one of whom beat her in the stomach as soon as he leans back in the examination chair, to continue hitting most of his body for minutes.
La Selo was not conscious enough to speak the Turkish language, which is what the Turkish nurse took advantage of, insulting her, one of them: “Why did you come here?” The latter also rejected the Syrian woman’s request to enter her husband to speak with her, as she knows Turkish well.
One of the people familiar with the story of the Syrian woman at the Sulaymaniyah hospital in Zeytinburnu said: “While the Turkish nurse was beating Rama Selo, the latter threatened to ask the police to put an end to the racist form of treatment and to present a complaint against her. ”
The source added to the Al-Hurra website: “When the Turkish nurse felt that she could be subjected to legal responsibility, she turned the story around and called the Turkish police and filed a malicious complaint against the Syrian patient, a fact that came to the last part of the arrest of the Syrian woman despite her critical health condition at the district police station. Olivos Borno “.
She remained at the Zeytinburnu police station for three days without the Turkish police providing her with any first aid, as she was a pregnant woman with a deceased fetus and could endanger her life if she remained in the womb.
The source indicates that after the story of the Syrian woman circulated on social media and the subsequent “media uproar” sparked by Syrian activists and human rights activists, the Turkish police released her, after they prepared to deport her to the interior. from Syria.
Cancel ownership registration
Salih, the husband of Ms Rama al-Selo, confirmed in statements to Al-Hurra the above-mentioned details, saying: “The latest development in the case is the release of my wife by the Turkish police,” and She added that she will file a complaint against the police station that arbitrarily arrested her for three days, and against the Turkish nurse who I filed a malicious complaint against her.
Saleh explains that a Turkish human rights organization had contacted him yesterday and played an important role in his wife’s release, saying: “If it hadn’t been for the media hype led by Syrian activists and media professionals in social media, my wife would have been deported to the Syrian territories. “
In his interview with Al-Hurra, the husband indicated that the Turkish police had canceled his wife’s registration and the temporary protection card that he (Kamalik) carried, without knowing the reasons for this.
Until now, the husband continues to communicate with Turkish human rights organizations and some Syrian lawyers to solve the problem of canceling the registration of the temporary protection card, a problem that may expose Selo to deportation again.
Similar incidents and warnings
The incident of racist aggression that Al Silo suffered is not the first that Syrian refugee women attending Turkish hospitals have faced. Rather, it was preceded by several similar incidents, the last of which was two weeks ago, when a Syrian woman named Khadija Al-Hassan was attacked by Turkish nurses at a Kayseri state hospital.
The aforementioned incident found interaction at that time on social networks, after the husband, Muhammad Arifi, published a video recording in which he explained the incident to which his wife was subjected, explaining that his wife was subjected to racial aggression later that she was beaten by workers in the hospital after her birth and she remained bleeding from the second hour until five in the morning, although she asked a doctor to check the condition of her wife, no one answered her ”.
The number of Syrians residing in Turkey, whether they are “refugees” or “tourists”, exceeds four million people, and the largest number of them is concentrated in the state of Istanbul, followed by the border state of Anlıurfa and the states of Gaziantep and Hatay.
Incidents of racism in Turkey against Syrians are not widely covered by local and international media, and the matter is limited to presenting the news if it occurs, without examining its details and causes, be they social or political.
A member of the Free Syrian Lawyers Association, Ghazwan Qurunful, wrote yesterday via his Facebook account, commenting on incidents of racism against Syrians in Turkish hospitals, saying: “In all cases, we instruct our Syrian brothers to advise that they do not get involved or get involved in disputes with any employee at this stage, and the attempt to complete all that can be achieved electronically, of the necessary procedures through the application (eDolt) and other government websites “.
