SETTLERS AND REFUGEES Engin Erkiner

SETTLERS AND REFUGEES By residents here, we mean immigrants who have been working and living in European countries, especially Germany, for years. Contrary to popular belief, asylum seekers were in the minority among those who protested the September 12 regime in the 1980s, especially in Germany, France and the Netherlands. The majority are migrant workers, or, as the term was called, foreigners, who have been living and working in these countries for years. People forget even the recent past quickly or do not feel the need to research it. They believe in determinations that seem plausible. Political migration to European countries since 1980 It started before but intensified especially between 1980-1985. Approximately how many people came It is not even known. Those who come to European countries and apply for asylum are citizens here. They encountered a crowd. Various political organizations have been working among this mass for years. was doing. Approximately two million people lived with their families in West Germany alone. Approximately two-thirds of the Turkish population in European countries were in this country. Approximately 30 thousand people attended the central September 12 protest march held in Frankfurt in 1982. people attended. There were also Germans among them. Who has a Republic of Türkiye (TR) passport? were carrying, who were asylum seekers, although it is not possible to count, those with Turkish passports It can be said that they constitute the majority. The total mass of Turkish people in the march in Paris on May 1, 1982, in which I also participated, If there were roughly 1000 people, the number of refugees was 10 at most. The rest were workers with Turkish passports. The September 12 administration confiscated passports to prevent this mass from participating in the protests. He resorted to methods of deprivation of citizenship and deprivation of citizenship. Politically, those who hold a Turkish passport When active persons go to consulates for any business, their passports are confiscated. was being placed. This situation was especially problematic in Germany because living and working Since the permission is on the seal on the passport page, the passport should be confiscated, and these It meant losing. In Germany, anti-fascists use this practice through the press and various organizations. They exposed it for years. German police issued temporary ID cards to people whose passports were confiscated. was giving. The 12 September 1983 protest rally was held in Duisburg. I am the one who made the declaration in Turkish, Sertaç Bucak from KOMKAR read the Kurdish version. We both soon went to TC We would be stripped of our citizenship. The practice worked as follows: A list of names was published in the Hürriyet newspaper and the relevant names were published. People were asked to return to Turkey and surrender. Nobody was doing this and for a few months He was then stripped of his citizenship. Most of those who were deprived of citizenship during the Demirel government after 1990. They would be given back their citizenship during the term, and they would not be required to apply for it. The September 12 regime may expel asylum seekers in European countries from citizenship at most, He could give some of them to Interpol and have them temporarily detained. Turkish passport holders It could cause serious problems for the public, especially in Germany. It is necessary to give justice to what these people did at that time.

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