PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
July 29, 1999
Kidnapping of Cevat Soysal
PRO ASYL and medico international send a reminder on the protecting
obligation by the Foreign Office
„Not tolerating piracy of a country of persecution“
- Entführung von Cevat Soysal
PRO ASYL und medico international mahnen Schutzverpflichtung durch Auswärtiges Amt an
„Piratenakte eines Verfolgerstaates nicht dulden“ - Kidnapping of Cevat Soysal
PRO ASYL and medico international send a reminder on the protecting obligation by the Foreign Office
„Not tolerating piracy of a country of persecution“
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The Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL and medico international have invited the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Fischer and the German embassy in Turkey, „to intercede for the life, the health and the return of Cevat Soysal to his family in Germany.“
Cevat Soysal had been kidnapped on 13 Juli 1999 by the Turkish Secret Service from Moldavia to Turkey and presented to the public. punctually to the visit of the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Fischer. The two NGOs wouldn’t tolerate without comment any longer his diplomatic. „It is impossible, that the Foreign Office obviously retires on the opinion, a asylum-seeker recognised in Germany wouldn’t enjoy the same protection as a German citizen. Both according to the criteria of the international customary law as well as of political moral principles a political refugee may expect, that a state which recognised him/her will intercede for him/her“, said Heiko Kauffmann, spokesperson of PRO ASYL. ..
Martin Glasenapp, Turkey officer of medico-international, informs, that Cevat Soysal upon arrival in Turkey has been interrogated and tortured for eleven days.
