Please bring my boys back

Hi, my name is Caroline.

My life isn’t what and where I thought it would be. A single mother of five, living at my moms. But it’s a choice I took and I’ve found happiness through it all and hope that one day it will all pay off and also set an example to my children.

I chose to leave the father of my children to guarantee my children what they deserve - good education, a stable household, have people who show up everyday for them and a good network.

Although, due to Covid, I had lost my business and job and drowning in debt, I slowly but surely started to find happiness regardless. I realised that it was not my children that drained the energy out of me - it was that toxic relationship and having to be a single mother in a partnership.

I have always put my children first, regardless of what’s happening around me.

Summer holidays came and my children had not seen their dad in two years (because it didn’t suit him) and I gave the children a choice to either go and see their dad or stay with me. The two older boys wanted to go. Their aunt and grandmother were going to go and offered to take them with and return with them before school starts.

July 4th 2025 I realised that I was living my worst nightmare. The aunt and grandmother had return to Stockholm, without my boys. There were no plans of bringing them back.

July 5th I filed a police report that my children had been kidnapped. I quickly was told that it was highly unlikely that something could be done as Turkey isn’t a country that collaborates. My heart sunk. Not only had I gathered the courage to go to the police (knowing the consequences) but I was also shut down as fast. Not long after I got a letter saying that the judge had dismissed the case.

Thoughout my whole life I was raised and told that the authorities were here to protect and help us but that moment I realised that I had been fed a lie.

I feel helpless and alone. Having to balance this desperation of getting my children back and being strong for the three who are with me. Every day I feel that I get weaker and weaker and the void in me grows.

The boys brought their mobile phones with but have had them taken away. I only have contact with them whenever their father is close by and they do not dare to upset him. They want to come home and miss their siblings, mom, school and friends.

I have found an attorney in turkey who has had a similar case and managed to bring the child back. However, it comes at a cost of 100000 sek.

I mentioned earlier that I am already in debt due to the business which all other partners don’t take accountability for but in regards to my children I cannot buy back time.

Please help me.