Zionist Turkish girl fears arrest if she returns

After a while, the number of messages became overwhelming. People were threatening her with rape and death. “They launched what could only be described as a coordinated jihadist-style lynch campaign,” she said.

She is unsure how safe she is in Israel, given that people in Turkey said they contacted their Palestinian friends to hunt her down and harm her.

Then, on Thursday last week, Avci learned that there is an arrest warrant in Turkey in her name. She is now unable to go back to Turkey, or even go to its embassy in Israel, and believes that if she sets foot in Turkey, she would be killed.

Interestingly, however, her lawyer in Turkey was unable to review the file for the arrest warrant and therefore cannot see its details or the reason for the warrant. Avci had, following a much less intense and much briefer incident with the media last year, sought a lawyer and passed him her power of attorney.

To Avci and her lawyer, the inability to access the information suggests that state security is in charge of the matter, as a police warrant would have been sent to her lawyer first rather than kept secret.

“Only the prosecutor knows,” she said.

Avci’s parents had to change their location for a week and have been receiving threats. “It’s really difficult for them because they have nothing to do with this. I’m really upset that I involved my family in this, and if something happens, it’s not something I can ever forgive myself for, and it’s just for nothing, you know, we didn’t do anything wrong as a family, nothing,” she said.

“On the other hand, I don’t have to be afraid anymore about saying what I want,” Avci noted.