Anneme Beyaz Elbiseler Giydireceğim - Türkiye İş Kurumu

I Am Going To Dress Up My Mum With White Dresses
orphanage” they look down on us, or pity us, and label us… when we go outside in Erzincan “look these
are from… orphanage, these are…”and they look at on a bad way and say “nothing will be of these
girls”. That’s how they approach me and it is negative”
“… because we are staying in the orphanage, even in the job environment…people suddenly start
looking at us differently...”
“(talking about the assault of her friend…) “you ask me whether I talked about my personal life and
, that I stayed in an orphanage?” I didn’t tell them that I was staying in an orphanage.”
“… They didn’t know I was from the orphanage. I didn’t tell them on purpose. I knew how they
would have approached me. But, I wish I had. I went through that situation…I though they would be
bad to me because I am from an orphanage”
“The disadvantage of being a girl, and from the orphanage, is that that there is a prejudgement on
being from an orphanage, there is everything. To be very frankly they think that “these girls have stayed
in an orphanage, need money, as long as we give them money, we can buy everything, and buy their
bodies.”
“the ones that are staying in the orphanage, can be how can I say it…I mean that they can go in any
direction…that’s how they look at us mostly…especially men. That’s why I didn’t say anything in the
beginning. I just introduced my self, then told them, then it didn’t mean anything.”
- HHaavviinngg nnoo kknnoowwlleeddggee oonn wwoorrkkiinngg lliiffee aanndd rriigghhttss……
“…They tell us that “you will be a civil servant” I didn’t even know what it was to be a civil servant,
do they sit and write stuff? They just sit and deal with the files that arrive…on my mind…I don’t think
they do much…they would actually say that thought.”
“I understood the significance of your pronunciation, clothes and body language while working. I
learned the importance of looking at the person while talking to them”
“I didn’t have social security. I didn’t know about stuff like that. Now its like can I lead my own life
and receive my pay cheque, its all ok”
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