GATEWAY FOR REFUGEES FROM FRANCE TO GERMANY Engin Erkiner
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Beginning in 1982, asylum applications in France were accepted easily and quickly. Those who applied for asylum in West Germany years ago, were not accepted and were informed that they had to leave the country, went to France, got an asylum passport and returned to Germany.
The center of the Turkish socialist movement in Germany was first Munich, then Frankfurt and finally Cologne. Those who got their passports in Paris would come to Cologne via Aachen by train.
Aachen was the most used border gate for refugees in this situation.
< span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Turkish administrations after September 12 would report left-wing political people to Interpol and ask for their arrest. It was estimated that they were found in different European countries.
German police also took French asylum passports, especially at the Aachen border gate
while examining them, he would compare them with the names on the list in his hand. Those with an Interpol search would be detained and a file regarding the search for the person would be requested from Turkey. In those years, it was difficult for Germany to extradite a person whose asylum was accepted in France to Turkey.
The content in the file coming from Turkeywas not taken seriously and the person was sent back to France.< /span>
A revolutionary whose asylum was accepted in France is detained in Aachen on the grounds that his name is on the Interpol list while coming to Germany. . A week later, the requested file arrives from Turkey. The person is accused of killing 110 people.
In those years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Turkey “what The more crimes I write, the more convincing it will be", he fills the file with whatever comes to his mind. Germany does not find the contents of the file serious and the person is sent back to France.
What is interesting here is that the police around Aachen gather and visit the person in custody. The police are wondering what kind of person he is who is accused of killing 110 people.
The police were able to speak Turkish because the defendant in custody did not speak German. I don't know, The police must have been astonished to see a normal human being in front of them.
