A COLUMN BY COLUMNIST ÇİĞDEM TOKER, CUMHURİYET DAILY, REGARDING ARRESTED THOUSANDS OF JUDGES IN TURKEY

Arrested JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS

“No. There are no channels to express ourselves. I am calling you because you wrote this topic before and of course you are a woman. ”
The dictation of voice on the phone is smooth. Expressions are clear, determined.
The name is hidden. Let’s say her name is Aysun.
Mrs. Aysun is the wife of a judge who was taken into custody on 16 July 2016. Yes, July 16th. Just one of the judges and prosecutors’ wife who were taken under custody and arrested then dismissed immediately after the coup attempt, and whose total number is four thousand (its more than 4 thousands nowadays).
Eventhough it is very rare, the voice is too weak, notwithstanding the channels that transfer these rare and weak voices restricted to the death, you may have heard or read the following questions:
“Were the judges and prosecutors who were sacked and sent to prison in a night, be understood that they are members of a terrorist organization at coup night, were therefore they detained without legal review-investigation?”
“Even if they were members of a terrorist organization, so why [judicial authorities] waited until July 16th?”
Or the judges and prosecutors who were taken under custody abruptly, had been marked for different reasons, was the July 15 coup d’etat been the stage?”
“I was so sure that my husband will be back in one week at most,” says Mrs. Aysun.
She says that her confusion is not over yet:
“We grew up in a family where the Republican values ​​are embraced. The apposition with my husband and being member of a cemaat is just incredible. On the contrary, he always reacted.”
Mrs. Aysun has an opinion that her husband was blacklisted cause he was a member of YARSAV (An Independent Judicial Association) and he did not vote for the YBD (Pro-Erdogan Association of Judicial Unity) on the Judicial Council (HSYK) elections. Not only by her husband, but also by many judges and public prosecutors who did not vote on the list of the Association Of the judicial unity in the HSYK elections, were blacklisted as “FETÖists (Gulenists)”, which is spoken in many places, she shared.

‘We told our child that her father is doing his military duty’

Her husband, who was a head judge of a heavy penal court, spent the first three months in the solitary confinement, of his nine months imprisonment, not stand in a trial. The older one of the two children began primary school this year when his father was in prison.
“As she learns to read, she can understand her fathers situation since she visit him twice a month” says Mrs Aysun. Her voice is getting hoarse before she finishes her sentence. We became mutually silent for a while on the phone.
The most strange thing comes to Mrs. Aysun is that some judges and prosecutors are released, even though there are no indictments about them like her husband. She complains that everyone wrongfully detained must of course, be released, but he can not understand how it is legally possible. She says “when the situation asked to the HSYK, she received the “they are confessors” response, but she knows that non-confessor judges were also released.”
She can not believe that there is no news in newspapers and TVs about ongoing human right violations.
In spite of the unlawfulness of the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer lawsuits, that the victims can express themselves in a larger number of ways compared to today, and states that she was sorry to told these in this way and adds;
“It is not known that thousands of judges and prosecutors in Turkey today are expecting a trial without indictment. Nobody knows about this. Nobody knows, or it was forgotten, I’m not sure of it.”
She emphasizes that it is the suffering of not knowing how long it will take.
“I would give my name and my husbands If I had not to stay healthy to be with my children, Please excuse me” She says
Excuse ? What Excuse ?
I tell her best wishes for her husband whose detention closes to nine months in a prison somewhere in the country, and she tells her best wishes for my dear friends whose detentions without indictment approaches six months in Silivri. “It’s good news that there is Cumhuriyet daily” she says
And “God willing there is good comes out of it i hope,” she adds, while closing the phone.
Such.

Source: http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/m/koseyazisi/708756/Tutuklu_h_kimler_ve_savcilar.html