Tunç couple living in Batman Cumhuriyet neighborhood told the difficulty of live to ILKHA (Ilke News Agency). Disabled people need to be remembered every day, not just in one day, the couple wanted obstacles to be removed in front of them.

Walking disabled Burhan (38) and Yasemin Tunç (38) couple cannot get out of the house some days due to streets of Batman are not suitable for disabled, even though they need to do their work. The couple, whose have to do their own work because of their children are at young age, do not neglect to thank for everything.

Burhan Tunç, due to wrong vaccine when he was at the age of 2, he suffered from poliomyelitis. Now he is 38 years old. Yasemin Tunç was paralyzed because of spinal cord injury due to her brucella disease when she was 22 years old and she is wheelchair-bound for 16 years.

"Batman's streets are not suitable for any handicapped"

Yasemin Tunç voicing that Batman's streets are their own obstacles as well as their disables, "My husband and I are both disabled people, we cannot go out, all of Batman's streets are not suitable for any handicapped, we always have problems. We cannot find a way due to cars parking in both sides of Gulistan Street. We only can go only if someone help us. We want to go to the bazaar, but our street is rough now. Do not set handicap in front of us when we are already disabled. Please help us. We can’t go to a mall in Batman if we want. We want to go shopping with our children we can’t.

"We are already disabled and we want to overcome these obstacles"

Disabilities is not just a day, Tunç remarked that it needs to remember every day, "How strong people whether you guys are, you are doing everything by yourself, just consider a little to people with disabilities. Supposedly this week disabilities, but the week, nothing is done according to the handicapped and not available. We want officials to help please. We are already handicapped, we want to overcome these barriers with their help. Anyway everything hinder for us, at least strong people shouldn’t set obstacles in front of us. Each side of Batman’s street is a barrier to us. Only Diyarbakir Street is a little comfortable, all the other places are the same. We ask for sidewalks to be design according to disabled like those in Diyarbakir street."

"Every human being is a disabled candidate"

Reminding that everyone is disabled candidate, Yasemin Tunç said that she has been walking for 22 years and after a sudden illness, she is prisoned to wheelchair for 16 years, "We have another favor we ask from all healthy people. I've disabled now and after the age of 22 I became disabilities. I couldn’t walk after brucella illness damaged my cerebrospinal. After the age of 22 I became disabled and couldn’t walk and prisoned to wheelchair. I ask from all our people to be sensitive. Each person is a disabled candidate. No man should trust his own health, please all people be sensitive to us. They shouldn’t despise us when they see us, they shouldn’t look at us as if we are different people, and we are others.  We ask from all the sensible people, take us in too. Look at us like other healthy people."

"We cannot get out of home"

Burhan Tunç said that the streets are not useful because of the mud, voicing to Batman Municipality to repair the streets as soon as possible.

Tunç, "We are already people with disabilities, they have impair our streets for two months. After winter came, it became very muddy place. We cannot get out of home. Our children get sick and can’t go to the hospital. We can’t do our works. We are staying at home stranded. We want our streets to be repaired. Even if they can’t repair now, at least they can pour sand so we can get out with our battery-operated wheelchairs and do our works, buy what we need.”

"Although the trains are free for us, we cannot use train"

Tunç voicing some other obstacle in front, "Billboards that settled in the middle of sidewalk are handicaps for us. Then we have to go on side of streets and drivers are getting angry with us. We want to go on the sidewalk, no handicapped ramp on the sidewalk and there are bus stops and billboards are in the middle of sidewalks. Just one can pass from those narrows. No battery-operated wheelchair can pass or motorcycle. We also can’t use the train. Currently I am kidney patient. I want to go to Diyarbakir, I cannot go by bus. I want to go by train but the train is not suitable for us. Supposedly they made us a lift, but they cover up the elevator for two years. Although trains are free for us bur we can’t use train. If they make a ramp for us then we can take on train easily. We want authorities to be sensitive in this regard." (ILKHA)