Kedis­tan will­ing­ly relays this call for sol­i­dar­i­ty, a cry from a moth­er who is fight­ing to get her child back from Turkey. Bor­ders and their laws sep­a­rate thou­sands of beings, fam­i­lies, caus­ing human tragedies. This time, a solu­tion exists, but the pro­ce­dure is sus­pend­ed for eco­nom­ic impos­si­bil­i­ties. We can pool our strengths and help this young moth­er to take her daugh­ter in her arms. She still has a chance to unblock the sit­u­a­tion, if we act with her until February.

To help her, click here. You can also share this arti­cle through your net­works, in French and Eng­lish. Mul­ti­ply­ing the shar­ing is also solidarity.

Here is her message.…


Hel­lo, everyone.

I’m Z. G … and I need your support.

I would like to share some of the turn­ing points of my life with the pur­pose of sol­i­dar­i­ty­with­out going too far into my per­son­al story.

Every sin­gle page of life has been a bat­tle. We some­times have to give a war to get free­dom in our lives. If you are a woman, you have to fight twice more. If you are a trans, a bisex­u­al or a les­bian, you have to fight even more.

I had to fight a dif­fer­ent bat­tle for every point in my life. As a les­bian, I ha ve forced to mar­ry a man and sent to France in 2008 against my will. I have been raped before com­ing to France. Once in France, I have been locked into a house for a year and suf­fered phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal vio­lences. Being kept pris­on­er, after a year, I was weight­ing 160 kilo­grams , under the pres­sure of a man, in a for­eign coun­try, whose I did not speak the lan­guage. I con­sid­ered these years as the fin­ish­ing point of my life.

I found a way to break free in 2013. Leav­ing the man who ruined my life, I fled back to Turkey.

In Istan­bul, I had to face anoth­er strug­gle in my life. I got preg­nant from hav­ing sex with a man I did­n’t want.

I gave birth to a baby on 1 Sep­tem­ber 2015 in Turkey. I now have a 3‑year-old girl. I have no health and social secu­ri­ty in Turkey because I have to live in France and I’m sep­a­rat­ed from my daugh­ter. I want to take my daugh­ter with me in France. How­ev­er, we are now stuck in the legal process for finan­cial reasons.

The legal process must be con­clud­ed before bring­ing my child to France,. Blood tests need to be done for me, for the reg­is­tered father (who is not the genet­ic father) and for her. The tests cost €99 per per­son, so it is €279 for three. There is also a fee of a state-appoint­ed admin­is­tra­tor, for an amount of €600, and a han­dling fee of €200.

This legal pro­ce­dure, along with file han­dling costs, requires a bud­get of €1100.

I, as a phys­i­cal­ly dis­abled indi­vid­ual, receive a state social ben­e­fit of €713 per month in France. With this mon­ey, I have to look after my daugh­ter in Turkey and also try to sur­vive. On Decem­ber 24, 2018, the case fell because I could­n’t pay for the trustee.

By pay­ing the mon­ey, we can reopen the case until Feb­ru­ary 2nd. If I can’t col­lect this amount and reopen the case, my daugh­ter won’t be able to come to France until she turns 18, and she is three years old now. My daugh­ter and I will have to live in dif­fer­ent coun­tries sep­a­rat­ed by law.

If this amount is col­lect­ed with your sol­i­dar­i­ty, I will be able to pay the admin­is­tra­tor’s fees, pro­vide the blood tests for the three peo­ple, and the tri­al will end in one year.

I would like to start the year 2020 with my daughter.

I hope you will stand with me to over­come this prob­lem and help me col­lect these urgent and necessary.

I wish you a life with no bor­ders, one where moth­ers meet their children.

Z. G

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