A Chechen grandmother named Havva Jebrailova, whose two sons were killed while struggling against Russian oppression, and her three orphaned grandchildren will be deported from Turkey within 15 days after having lived there for 1.5 years.
The justification for the police deporting them is that the children’s mother or father are not with them.
The Foreigners and Internationals Protection Act which was accepted by the Parliament two weeks ago in order to rescue distressed immigrants from being deported will not be able to save the three orphaned boys whose father was murdered by Russians and whose mother lives abroad.
Since the law will go into effect in one year, the Chechen orphans will not be protected by the new law.
Due to Jebrailova having a mental disability, she and her three grandsons—Omer, Jebriel and Muhammad—are residing in housing provided to them by Imkander. IMKANDER is an organization which helps refugees who have been the victims of the ongoing wars and the occupations, particularly in the Caucasus.
Expressing that she and her grandsons came to Turkey due to its being a Muslim country, Jebrailova stressed that they are in a forlorn and abandoned condition without a place to go. “I did not cry this much when my two sons were murdered,” she lamenting, voicing her desire to remain in Turkey with her grandsons.
World Bulletin/News Desk
