Duygu Erol

 

ANKARA - In the Seyranbağları neighborhood of  the district of Çankaya and in the side streets of police streets in Türközü neighborhood of Mamak district in Ankara, drugs are being sold and the state shuts its eyes to this, while women and children are being driven to the prostitution. The families, who came from Kurdistan due to the forced migration from Kurdistan, even afraid to take their children out of the house.

 

There is a rising drug abuse in Turkey, and the drug substances also get diversified by this increase. Many young people died, particularly due to the drug abuse of so-called synthetic drugs. According to the United Nations (UN) datas, Turkey ranks first among European countries in terms of drug abuse, and 580 drug users died due to the drug using in high doses compared to 2015 data. From the beginning of 2017 until today media, 39 896  news about rising drug abuse have been reflected in the press.

 

While the rate of drug abuse in Turkey is so high, these substances are sold under the state control in the neighborhoods where families forcibly have migrated from Kurdistan to the cities. there is the sale of substances even in the front of the primary schools  in the neighborhoods where Kurdish people live intensively in Çankaya and Mamak districts of Ankara.

 

Young Kurds are being poisoned

 

The state, which accelerates its assimilation policies by the drugs and the prostitution, sells drugs directly in Kurdistan cities such as Dersim, Diyarbakır, Mardin while poisoning  the young Kurds in the cities, such as Ankara, İzmir, Adana where Kurdish people live intensively.

 

They make the young Kurds addicted to drugs

 

 The drug selling is carried out in the neighborhoods, in all the streets and behind the police departments where the age of drug use goes down to 14. Besides, the use of drugs drives children and women to the prostitution.

 

‘We don’t want our children to go out from house’

 

Stating that the drugs are particularly are being sold in parks and empty buildings, the people, who lives in the neighborhood, says “The police always perform an operation, detain the drug sellers but release two days later. Why do they release the drug sellers after detaining? We are worried about our children. Our children are sold everywhere they go, by these drug sellers. We don’t want our children to go out from house.

 

A child died due to Bonzai 

 

In the past few days, 17-year-old D. N.  in Seyranbağları died due to Bonzai (a kind of very fatal drug). According to the reports received from the neighborhoods residents, D.N has used drug since she was 14-year-old, and her friend is also lost.