Press release
of September 10th, 1998
Deported Kurd in Turkey maltreated
Hüsni Almaz threatened with several years imprisonment
PRO ASYL and Lower Saxonian Refugee Council:
How many of „unusual individual German ministers need to draw the conclusions? cases“
Deported Kurd in Turkey maltreated (en)
In Deutschland politisch aktiv, in der Türkei gefoltert (taz)
Translation-Info
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There is the current case of a Kurdish refugee with PRO ASYL and the Lower Saxonian Refugee Council, whose application was turned down by German authorities and courts of law. He was deported thereafter, in Turkey maltreated and taken into custody.
On March 9th 1998 the single judge Niermann of the Administrative Court Osnabrueck assessed the political activities of the 27years old Huesni Almaz as mentioned in his negative decision on asylum application as insignificant. It would be improbable „to a large extent“ that Kurds are threatened with political persecution due to the participation in Kurd demonstrations and meetings or interviews which are broadcasted by the Kurdish television MED-TV. This risk would only run „high rank functionaries“.
Judge Niermann did not let himself be confused in this assessment by the testimony of another Kurdish refugee, who confirmed that after the broadcasting of a first interview with MED-TV in April 1997 soldiers had appeared with the mother of Huesni Almaz and maltreated her punching several teeth in. Even giving credence to that it could nevertheless be excluded, that „the mother of the plaintiff was exposed to violent treatments by the local security forces for other reasons, which according to the experiences of the chamber happened in numerous cases in the states of emergency provinces in the east of Turkey“…
