The war that erupted in Syria in 2011 entered the 7^th year. The life is getting harder every day for women and children took refuge in neighboring countries, especially in Turkiye. While the civil war in Syria has intensified, the failure of the cease-fire negotiations has led to a serious disappointment. The destruction and humanity drama that civil war caused is getting worse.

The war in Syria caused hundreds of thousands of children, women, young and elderly people to be killed and millions of Syrians to become refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian women, who have settled in different countries, the majority in Turkiye, try to live with the deep scars that the war left in their heart, with the heavy burden on their back and with the sorrow of living away from their country.

Syrian women who fled from the civil war in Syria and settled in Turkiye's Gaziantep, struggle to survive under heavy conditions. The women said that due to limited opportunities, also their kids have to work for bread.

Syrian mothers, who stated that their children could not go to school because of the impossibilities, stated that they tried to keep living under very difficult circumstances despite all these.

As in every war, Syrian women, who stated that women and children are paying with the most severe price in the war in Syria, said that civil war affected most women and children as well as all Syrian people.

Azize Cellut, 60, who had been arrested for not accepting to be a spy-offer of the regime, was kept in the prison for 11 years. Cellut, whose husband has been prisoned in Syria allegedly being a member of Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s, fled to Turkiye 5 years ago.

"I was very afraid of being arrested"

Many people from her family had been prisoned in the 1980s, Cellut indicating that she doesn’t want to experience old days again. "The reason we fled to Turkiye; one of my children attended the protest in Syria. Therefore, his name was recorded by Syrian intelligence. We are very frightened when my son's name was on a list of intelligence. Because in the 1980s our family, many people caught by Syrian intelligence, kept in Syrian prisons for many years. That made us very scared. We decided to escape from Syria to Turkiye for asylum within 24 hours after my son's name was blacklisted by the intelligence," said Cellut.

"I was pregnant and I was tortured"

Cellut said that she witnessed the massacre of 40 thousand people in 1980s in Syria and kept in prison for 11 years when she was 21, "I was arrested in 1979. My husband was a soldier. He was accused of leaking military information. I have been arrested for the plot they did to my husband. They forced me to give information about my husband's friends. I was pregnant when I was arrested. I was pregnant and I was tortured. I stayed in prison for 3 months after this arrest. Then they released me. Of course, I also exposed many tortures in this process. I was tortured psychologically. After I was released, I started living with my husband again. They arrested me again in the 1980s. After this arrest, they did not torture me. I only held in jail for 11 years. Of course, staying 11 years in prison as a human being, away from freedom, cause mentally destructive results. Normally, when a woman or anyone in Syria is arrested, all kinds of torture are being done to them. All methods of torture are applied to me. I was pregnant during my first arrest and my body was exposed much torture. But thank God I did not get raped. However, many Syrian women are being raped in prisons."

Indicating that she supports the Conscience Convoy, Cellut expressed that she wrote 2 books during the time she lives in Turkiye and published. The first book, titled "Challenges of Women" related to the women in Syria, who have been persecuted, and forced to live under severe conditions. The second book is about her life in prison and "Hama Massacre" titles "Difficulties of the Dungeon".

"I was prisoned at the age of 15 and kept there for 9 years"

Att. Lema Ahademi, 52, is a lawyer who prisoned at the age of 15 and kept for 9 years in Hafiz Assad's dungeons, exposed all methods of tortures, ended up living in Turkiye for 4 years.

Because she participated in peace demonstrations organized for lawyers and judicial, Ahadeni said that she sought by intelligence agencies and that she fled to Turkiye illegally.

"I was arrested in 1981 and released in 1990. The detention period lasted nine years," said Ahadeni. Stating that she was sentenced to 4-year imprisonment in an open-ended court, and had to be kept five more years with the excuse of security.

Ahadeni, who is from Syria's Aleppo, said that she was kept in the Syrian Intelligence unit prison during her detention and exposed all methods of tortures there. "But psychological tortures were more difficult for us. We, as women, were all in a small cell for 4.5 years. When we slept we could not even move. There was a very bad voice. The sound had never gone silent for 4.5 years. The cries of the young people who were tortured during the day and night during 4 years never stopped," said Ahadeni.

"Some women had to sign unfounded documents to get rid of the rape"

Aide El-Hadji Yusuf, 36, is another mother, experienced life in Syria prisons for 8 months, said that many Syrian women were killed and that thousands are still held in prisons under the control of the regime from March 15, 2011, to today.

"I was detained for about 8 months. After I was released, I had to flee to Turkiye. I am in Turkiye for a year. When they have detained me in Syria they took us to prison. At first, we were investigated by the police. Then they started torturing us. They forced us to sign on some papers. Some women had to sign those unfounded documents to get rid of the rape. The lawyers and prosecutors in the court were already the regime's men," said Aide Yusuf.

"What happens in Syria prisons is a crime against humanity"

Yusuf pointed out that there are women in Syria have been held in prisons for years and have not been taken to court in any way, "What is happening in the Syrian prisons is a crime against humanity," she added. We, as Syrian women were exposed all kinds of oppression. There is no a single house in Syria that did not lose one of its member or more. We already know that there are families who were completely murdered." (İbrahim Koçyiğit - ILKHA)