German media is also constantly displaying the profiles of pro-Palestine demonstrators on TV, publishing their names and pictures, Acar said. /Photo: AA Archive
She shares how male officers raided her home at 6 am, stepped all over her carpet with their muddied shoes, and barged into her bedroom with scant regard for the resident — a woman and a Muslim. She recalls how two years ago, her brother was stopped by German cops just because he was driving a brand new sports car. Apparently, they even went on to explain why they had stopped him, saying, “When we saw a young Turk in a fast car like this, we wondered what you do for a living,” further declaring him a"danger to public safety and order" without any explanation.
“It's not something that you would need to search someone's home. It's all connected to the protests and everything. They didn't like the way I'm protesting,” she says.Before the May 1 protests, the police sent a letter to warn her. It read that if she were to attend the demonstration, she should behave peacefully, implying that she had not been peaceful before.
After the April 26 demonstration, Yasemin had to visit the hospital because of the wounds from the disproportionate use of force at the time of her arrest. Now, she says that having been raised to be a law-abiding citizen, she had never faced any issues with the law, until she began amplifying the voices of Palestinians.