Handan Tufan/JINHA

RIHA - "We don't want to live here. We have our own country and it is more beautiful than everywhere. However, unfortunately there is a war in our country now. I hope no one experience a war. No one wants to leave their country. We just want the war to be ended." said Hacire Şexo, who migrated from Til Abyat to Urfa four years ago.

Hacire Şexo is one of women those who had to migrate to another country due to ongoing war in their country. Hacire welcomed us to her two-roomed home. There Hacire's children and guests in the home. She began to tell us what she experienced when she offered us Syrian syrup. She said that she only wants to return Syria.

Hacire was born in Til Abyat (Girê Spî). She said that she passed her childhood and youth in the same city and she added by smiling that she was luckier than other Syrian women because she married when she was 25 years old. Hacire is the mother of six now. She stated that her youngest daughter was born in Turkey.

Hacire told that they began to feel the war four years ago, "We didn't think the war would spread like that. First, attacks were carried out in our city. Gangs members announced, "Leave the city" from the mosque in the morning. And then, they took all men in the city to prison. They told women and children to leave the city. My husband and one of my daughters were in Turkey that time. I and my four children left our city to Urfa. We left everything behind except our dresses on us. Now, four years have been passed."

Hacire stated that the life I Syria was beautiful, "We are foreign in this country. We don't know any people. We didn't have anything when we came here. My husband began to work in Turkey. Our life was good in Syria. My husband had worked in Lebanon and I had been tailor in Syria. We had a home there. However, when the war began, everything was ended. Our whole world came crashing down around us. Families' members passed the border separately. Families' members lost each other. We were petrified and couldn't talk. First we tried to find our relatives when we arrived to Turkey. Those days were very bad."

Hacire added that they aren't liked in Turkey; however they have to stay here. Hacire pointed out that they just want to return their country, "We don't want to stay here. We have our own country and it is more beautiful than everywhere. However, unfortunately there is a war in our country now. I hope no one experience a war. No one wants to leave their country. We just want the war to be ended."

Hacire's daughters Şirin and Muna also want to return their country and see their friends again. They said, "We want to return our home. Children in Turkey don't like us. They don't play games with us. We have our own home and country. We are looking forward the war to be ended soon."

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