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dominance. good is still the head with d w. business beyond ah, be destroyed non ideal dimia jam. mashaila t o lu. dennis you gel. these are some of the well known german political prisoners in turkey, along with many other germans. they have been targeted by the turkish judiciary and the turkish president. although an agent of terror has your claims to be a journalist, that's who they want from me. to this day, several germans are held in turkish custody, or prohibited from leaving the country many for political reasons, victims of a president who persecutes his opponents without mercy. ready ready

ah, this is the story of 3 of those prisoners. 3 women who were held in turkey for yes . what did they go through? and how did it change their lives? they all the journalist mashaila toler, arrested in his dunbar in april 2017 ish galvis. alas, i think it was all politically motivated and decided on it's let's go level. everything i experienced makes me angry, macintosh as of it. the german kurdish thing, a hose on china jailed in adina july 2018 book ticket of trickle all month. there is no little of lo and turkey, sol. decisions are made behind closed doors. la copa, archuleta, and her daughter,

the social worker, good old di lan, earth arrested in istanbul. may 2019th it come. well, i mention how can you do something like is to a person man to simply strip them of 2 years of their life, financial and fostering indic fatty. it. all 3 were accused of membership and terrorist organizations, or distribution of terrorist propaganda. they were being held in a country where judges hand down political sentences in line with the president's will and his fight to silence. critics, even in germany, how did it come to this? ah, it all began on the night of july, the 15th 2016. a part of the military attempted a coup against the regime of president reject. tie up, adam. the 2 failed,

and there were several casualties. edwin blamed v attempt on his political opponent, the islamic preacher, fed to local land with us. he vowed a bitter revenge. do little that we will wipe out this virus that is spread throughout all state institutions. a purge began immediately and continues to this day, tens of thousands of citizens, soldiers, and teachers, as well as prosecutors. and judges said to be close to glen, were arrested or dismissed and replaced by inexperienced officials, loyal to the government. the diplomat martin at mann was the german ambassador to turkey. at the time of the failed coo, most of turk, his german political prisoners, were detained during his posting. and german turkish relations were at

a low point. is incessant, for there is an overarching political atmosphere in which judges or prosecutors believe they have to act a certain way. it's one aspect of the politicization of the system to pull it is the on to sustained in some cases, detained. foreigners have been openly used as political hostages. one example is the u. s. pastor andrew brunson at one would like to exchange him for another clergyman that to la glenn, who he sees as the mastermind of the qu, attempt glen, now lives in exile in the united states. navy again, bill hughes of you yet, she heard you. americans also have a preacher of iran, give us our preacher, and you will get yours. papa's reserve,

tunica harden left him there, president, is it actually on golf game? not. but after that statement by the president, cynic spoke of political prisoners as human bargaining chips, namely, a pass on a person is arrested to be used in political extortion liter, a person. so could an aunt. and there certainly have been such cases regardless of ah, not only americans, but also french, british and germans have been detained. the most prominent is dennis huge. l. a german journalist of the newspaper div out i what she, she hickok on this person who was a representative of the p k. k. a and a german agent. all was hiding in the consulate for a whole month. be the whole time we told them, turn him over to us if he said that we can bring him to justice. for whatever

reason they did for and out judiciary did what was necessary and arrested him. they are a good good of in the after took look to cindy. there's no way he's going to go free as long as i am in office. kosler was, you jour also such a human bargaining chap, according to martin edmond, no price was ever mentioned for you jell, all the others. yet they were pawns on the turkish president political transport, his aim to rid himself of opponents and appear as the leader of a strong and independent turkey. he has demands for europe, money for syrian refugees, relaxation of visa rules for his turkish compatriots and accustomed union. at the beginning of 2018, the german foreign minister zip mar gabrielle received his turkish counterpart chavel sharla for tea. a few weeks after this controversial meeting, dennis eugene was released. he claimed he didn't want to be the subject of any deal,

but turkey wanted to get rid of him. as a saul thus leaf i launched at frankie by the fact is that the releases came about because these detentions had become too burdensome by because the german media was constantly reporting on the arrest and attention to soft and because there were all these solidarity rallies. so all in all hunger it was putting turkey in an increasingly bad light. ok, in an emotional asleep, alter german demands for the release of political prisoners were dismissed as interference in internal affairs. ambassador adman was regularly summoned to the foreign ministry in ankara. a total of $28.00 times during his 5 year posting mama and shed some von minor. i moved along. i believe my so meanings were often being used as an instrument and domestic politics. the idea was to show the

citizens of turkey that once in a while, these germans need to be given a good talking to delivery. it leaves and come a message directed at the electorate, but also at the opposition at home and abroad. it didn't have the didn't, or some people participate in rallies of terrorist organizations in germany, and then want to go on vacation in turkey. we have now taken some measures to deal with them. they are arrested upon entry and sent right back those, although yellow was still am i so let those words have slaymen, so low have deterring some people from taking to the streets in germany again because they also have family members in turkey and fear for them. if they participate in demonstrations here with our 1st unless of ends, he has his pathetic in june 2018 german kurdish singer hose on china was arrested in edna in the west of

turkey. shortly before the presidential election, she had performed in the election rally for the pro kurdish opposition party h. d p. she was brought before a judge on the charge of belonging to a terrorist organization and said to have contacts to the p k. k. it was the beginning of a 3 year odyssey. yeah. with her today, her son, china is back in germany. she kept a diary about her time in turkish custody and is now writing a book together with her daughter and a friend. she clearly remembers the horrors of the day. she was taken to the prism in edna air then and didn't it just there the net when it quote a lot at public, he been hitched as evy or when i came to add any prisoner, i didn't know how bad it would be that they would treat me like they did wish

tanya's 3 guards brought me to a small cell where they undressed me. g one grabbed my right arm. the other grabbed my left arm and held my head. there was the 3rd one knelt down in front of me. held me back with one hand and penetrated me deeply with the other. all the way up to my uterus. i screamed and cried. why are you doing this? i started bleeding oliver. he said, well, maybe you have hidden some heroin up there. or did he rescue arrow in order sack lunch? it didn't be right. it had been added. an edge is a little grew cornea, her daughter gern or dylan ers learned about the arrest at home in germany. they didn't get, but they were only allowed one phone call a week to an m been in at dylan edge is the worst part was the time i did in the prison in adenine or be especially the last month i was kept in isolation as i almost died of hunger and thirst. it was a place where people were tortured and i could hear their screams knowledgeable. i

wasn't coping mentally and thought the best thing would be to just die. but the german console talked me out of that. in germany, gern old publicly calls for the release of her mother as her mother's health keeps deteriorating in the prison. gern on 2 sides to travel to turkey to visit even though she is aware of the risk of them from i already have my mother. oh, are they going to take me to another on what grounds also for me they already have a family member, so you think they wouldn't take me just for being her daughter. and that's impossible of all. that was my thinking in it was very naive. many people who watched this will probably say, how came even be so naive, but at the time i wait the art and what's the most important thing may be seeing my mother in law school lee. so colonel flew to turkey and as soon as she landed in istanbul,

she was detained at the airport by the passport. while at the passport control, they told me to come alone. because according to the computer system, i had an outstanding warrant i was escorted into a separate room by a couple of police. there i was told i was supposedly a member of a terrorist organization over there. so she had no explanation for this accusation . and the following day, she was brought before a judge when i met and, and had said, my lawyers simply requested to see the case files. they were sent by fax i had in contained documents about a demonstration that took place in cologne in 2012, a chase that was dropped fine. as i thought, was this all about this can't be alicia. i had the shock of a lifetime. this is kind of fun. in 2012, she took part in a demonstration on board, a tourist steamboat in cologne, when 9 activists voice their support for the kurdish cause. the case

against curnow was dropped by the german authorities. but years later, those files from cologne turned up in ankara. i thought is that, is it? i have travelled to turkey on multiple occasions since 2012 and nothing has happened. oh, so why now and why only now? and then i thought, well, maybe it has something to do with the fact that i've been speaking up for my mother in the media these past months. a probably started taking a closer look and fished out this folder and allow a harmless demonstration lead to colonels undoing because edwin's prosecutors and judges treat such public manifestations as crimes. even sharing a critical tweet can lead to harsh punishment even more. so if, who are some one who works for opposition? media like mashaila tolo. after finishing her studies in 2014, she moved to turkey. she earned a little money on her side as a translator for the left wing news agency,

eta. it didn't occur to her at the time that she herself could become the target of anti terror investigations. it would exited from it. i would say that i simply got caught up and what was happening at the time, michelle, at all. they weren't looking to imprison michelle or toller in particular. but they carried out raids against the free press. and i was part of the bi catch in a changed my whole life in turkey, hired as had my labor for in less than that. okay. we had already visited her is 10 ball apartment in 2018 where she lives with her husband. so at and there young son, mashaila tolo recounts the events of the night when an anti terrorist squad stormed the apartment where she and her then 2 year old son was sleeping her husband. so at was already in custody at the time on suspicion of terrorism until the regular similar cuff. what you can see that the vault is still broken. hearing they burst in here and slammed me on to this floor by the kitchen hanging out of it. i was

lying here with dozens of men standing on top of me. men on the ultimate of austin, men's honest. my son came running out from the room across the hall. he was crying because a member of the swat team had pointed a machine gun at him in the dark in dolton and machine give elvin gillis to 30th. for hours she had to look on as the security forces ransacked her apartment. and before being taken away, she had to leave her 2 year old son with neighbors. thus lessingham mice. oh, get the thing that affected me the most and left me traumatized was probably the police detention on baton street. and it was known as a torture center in the eighty's and ninety's little i was constantly threatened as well to if they wanted to scare and intimidate me if i was the legally interrogated without my lawyers being notified of infamy. i can only say that they took every

measure to break me during that period of my detention. we'll mister operation and his offsite after a few days in police custody mashaila tolo was transferred to the women's prison in buck hickory. and on readiness to me, clement had a lawyer came to see me and told me that my son was doing really bad. when i heard that i had to make a choice and decided that he had to be with me was ang, men's almost by me, isn't the psalm was allowed to join his mother in prison and spent the next 6 months behind bars with mashaila. but a women's prison is no place for children. she goes, i don't want for toys where forbidden imprison alti, i'd say, in fact, we didn't have any thing when we arrived when hamilton. hi, nick, we made up the whole big, colorful moral together and let our fantasy run free, no less so that my son could cope with the situation i have on best till dice

called. meanwhile, she tried to defend herself against the accusations of supporting terror, but turkish media loyal to the government had already given their verdict is what actually rhoda was a terrorist and foreign agent. how can you refute others when you've been locked up and stripped of your voice, or how can i change a story that has already been written and proved that it was nothing like they are claiming if i have no means to do without that so happened. she decided to fight and go public, family and friends, organized or protest alongside dennis you gel and to be destroyed. nat mashaila toller became turkey's most famous political prisoner, and thereby a problem for both sides. turkey and germany. a subject of behind the scenes negotiations. a scuff, mavita, i'll present relisted my fault imbecile. there were always some reports in the press. i for example,

in relation to former chancellor shrewd as closer to turkey and that that was made public. so nobody can deny that diplomatic harpies took place between turkey and germany about our release of the it's cut dealing in the stuff. well, i don't think that the german government entered into something like that. also his one. and if it did, i can say that probably none of us would have wanted that nerdy. all sagen thus kind of fallen slush and escalated to the talks seemed to have been successful. michelle, his father was overjoyed, after almost 8 months. his daughter was to be released from pre trial detention, but apparently some forces did not like this court decision. yes, yes. it was like a scene out of the spy movie film. as an alt 107 as a car pulled up. a silver car with tinted windows in and i was simply driven through the crowd and abducted from the prison and foot awesome defenders. want to have it on

a split system. i'm. i'm from late afternoon until the evening turned into a car chase and a sagal shocked. i'm a convoy of embassy cars and camera teams, was speeding through est amble. nobody knew where mashaila toner was being held and why she was still in police custody. essentially say something is he not milan? after several stops at various police station students, we finally found her in a small precinct in the city center and follies. she was being detained there lot vesee fiscal. that's one of the portfolio is here. this was told who is being held here, which we know, this is what we don't knows on which grounds, etc. if that's what i'm trying to find out. so. so what you can also different on indies are police are shot. so i walked into the police station and explained to them that i would only be leaving together with michelle, who told her unblocked for the wise. i would stay on start here. now black and in

the course of the night the german citizen is finally released. but she is not allowed to leave the country and master upon regularly to the police. if you have all the sentiment orders mentioned, i think it's just another method to intimidate those that are released one more time before letting them go. the implication is that even though you are free, now, we can come and get you any time about to leave you somewhere and nobody will know and will upset. so kind of a compliment, ah, good old di lan us who's also stock in turkey after her arrested is temple airport . she was initially released but she too was given an exit ban. she didn't know where to stay or how to finance herself in target or at home in cologne. she ran a social counseling center that now might have to close. oh, the existence as bogo in dodge land is defeated. your livelihood as

a citizen. and germany is in danger and that because you no longer have an income, her cousin, you're not allowed to put your personal affairs in order. you need people to do it for you, et cetera. in that regard, an exit ban from the country is tantamount to imprisonment. enough to your own clothes was my landline dish. oh my god, if this country will kill uses if not in prison than outside, psychologically because a fear on but then i did a little research and realised that it's quite easy to find human smugglers in at hercules. she says i liked and registrar's african after nearly 4 months of confinement in turkey, she attempted to cross the border to greece at the everett river with the help of smugglers. but the escape attempt failed. she was caught by turkish security forces and transferred to the nearby adeena prison.

esther let as i know the ships and get things sir. d slash alice give them a hood. adeena is probably one of the worst prisons there is. but it was only a transitional person for me and after that i was transferred to godsa and didn't take it back one day. when i arrived in kepsa, i was placed in a cell for political prisoners i with the kurdish women by this english. i was happy because there was finally some warm water and there was a garden escape and forgot, well, maybe not a garden, but at least a court yard surrounded by 4 high walls and hole off. here it was different in edina and, and as i knew we were kept in the cell for 23 hours is still in there said 12 women in one room with 6 beds. zix. that is to say we had to share a bed longest laugh in that class. so i was happy to be able to breathe freely and stay in that courtyard for some hours and i was which offers epo 5 aft and sure it was the worst time in prison,

but i was able to endure it because i knew what i had done i worked at the school, you were trying to go home and now you're being detained. fred, but will say my dad was of his own, i was able to deal with that. ask i had, i was fine with it back home. but the time and house arrest at that still gives me nightmares. cuz his staff on over she won't have time. in december 2019, after nearly 3 months in prison, colonel was finally transferred to house arrest. we were allowed to visit her there, accompanied by i shall jelic journals, lawyer we had to agree not to broadcast the footage. as long as good on remained in turkey. similar conditions apply to house arrest and

prison visits are allowed cameras not. she was living in her uncle's apartment, not allowed to leave the house and having to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. the essential angles was grumbling, establish her in physical as a sheet. it has to stay on 24 seventh's. and hm, to me is that i'm not allowed to damage it either because then it sends out a signal for so they told me, can sure i have to keep it on when i shower and go to bed. russia. it's really not a nice feeling. it makes you feel like a serious criminal. no. i have lived in germany for 25 years and studied, carved out my own professional path, had an apartment or friends, a boyfriend and family. that's all gone. completely gone completely. a so club. i can understand that people are afraid to

even just write me a letter on sam and i understand that they are too afraid to call the ang sam's answer. yeah, control, man, it's just still somehow you lose everything it gets used out. but i also know that every story has an end and whether it's a happy end or a sad one gets an end at least visiting. so i believe that sometime this too will pass my current situation. i just don't know when sad physicians to begin with. good o kept her ordeal hidden from her mother so as not to worry her hose on china remembers how she only learned about her daughter's fate after several months. cuz i must get a get that done. i, i didn't know anything about this, that my daughter had been detained at arrival,

jailed for 4 months and not been allowed to leave turkey afterwards. they kept the soul from me at ease. uh huh. when the lawyer finally told me, i almost lost my mind. shame it kindly to me, i must little update for either her own situation has become less important to her than mine, vinegar vicious as my distress. young people say you knew the dangers. so why did you go there? in the 1st place? i said, we left a broken woman behind a few weeks after our visit, colonel wanted to kill herself by jumping off the balcony. ah, ah say romance flourishing accomplishment by miss. i think it was sometime in march. i just couldn't go on mac because at that point when i was

completely exhausted and at a breaking point psychologically months, they still hadn't brought any charges, devices, stack. when you were not strong in, at that point i wasn't mad. you just want it to be over. i just thought this is it? my cousin stopped me. she locked me in the bathroom for half an hour later, the console arrived from is mere. they contacted a german psychologist who talked to me over the phone just wanted. i just let it all out. of course, i always knew that the consulate would support me laughing, she, madame for each passing day, and you will lose a little hope. fennic. monday, hoffer after months of waiting, her trial finally began, and colonel was allowed to leave the house in man nisa for 24 hours. it was the 1st time in half a year that she could move freely. she was allowed to attend the trial in person

and travelled to istanbul the evening before the court hearing she had the chance to practice with her lawyer. oh yes, yes. oh, oh, i keep going here. yes, we are talking about events that happened in 2012 more than 8 years ago. i don't speak so harshly pleased, but a little will calmly. this isn't calm enough. okay. i can recommend that honorable judges. the events we're talking about happened 8 years ago. in 2012, as you noted, i therefore find it hard to remember every single detail did you take part in the actions or not? well, there, it is inconceivable for me to participate in a terrorist action. i'm not

a member of any terrorist organization and i don't support any such organizations either. the 2nd sunday, the next morning both press and representatives of the embassy were present at the main proceedings. the hearing only lasted 15 minutes. everything seemed staged. and sure enough the house arrest was lifted. yeah. well, i'm still not allowed to leave the country and i have to check in weekly, but no more house arrest and no ankle bracelet. that's something at least this thing is in out this thing has finally come off after almost 7 months. i just have to wash it a bit and disinfect it before i give it back to them. but it's off. so freedom or partial freedom at least feels good. how you cry? i'm a fool. i'm glad if light of, of the joy was short lived because at some point the stress and the psychological

pressure returns will come down. and then you realize that you still can't leave this country. you're still a prisoner here. only now your radius is a little bigger there. as you know, the think less than the political prisoners continued to be a strain on german turkish relations. but both countries were working to improve those ties. neutral economic and security interests was simply too important. the tensions was slowly easing. that seemed to be having an impact on the situation of the political prisoners. there were finally some developments in the case of house on china, despite a court having decided shortly before that she should remain in custody girdles. mother was unexpectedly released from prison at the end of september 2020. the colors sign in. and what i like, how is that even possible?

obviously, we are not in a country that is governed by the rule of law, but still a judgment is past 10 days ago saying she has to stay in jail. and then 10 days later she is free to go. i stood, i'll get it finished was either missed. ah, ah, yes. how you mother e? burton? this is up and been in the 1st time i saw her. my health was not good the day and the day i had my chest pains on maybe it was because of the joy, i dont know, but i felt very lost at the time savings in later glenmuir, m. amr. or on the 10th of mckyrie timmy, he said he had a ah, the sentiment today share for more. it wasn't my mother from son month back to law . she was looking emaciated and scared. it wasn't the mother. i knew i was mad. i asked myself, who is this woman, is it?

this isn't my mother had a motor who united once more, mother and daughter rented a small apartment in istanbul while awaiting their next court date. their ordeal were dragged on over several months last night. after realizing that the apartment was under surveillance, they decided to leave his damn ball and stay with different relatives. and friends journal's trial was taking place in istanbul, a mother's in edina, a 3 hour car ride away a good 10 the, it's a political decision. it, it has nothing to do with the rule of law. and with political decisions, there is always a back and forth. everything is subject to change, so i might be acquitted today or put back in jail nonsense with him. you never know that when every court date was accompanied by an agonizing

uncertainty once again, the proceedings lasted only a few minutes. once again, the trip was in vain. and once again, the court was adjourned, setting a new date for months later, we'll give you the other. all my is, my case is not the animal case. that's a political one. i know that have settled on venom. i think they are some problems between the 2 countries that have nothing to do with me. i mean, if i feel like a ping pong ball are being bounced around me, it makes me very sad. i do remember without any talk is your mashaila tolliver felt the same way after 8 months in pre trial detention. she was set free and moved back to is dan ball. but the ongoing process would drag on for months as would her husband's for a long time their lives were on hold. does the hard to implement,

although not allowed to leave the country. honestly, that something i expected. i knew from the beginning that all decisions will be politically motivated and she can go down and i believe that was the case today observes over the televisions, which is more sir in mavita document, i had to keep submitting doctor mansfield, i was not allowed to leave the country by and as soon as i left his humble, a whole column of police officers followed me, nor from foot. it was a time when i felt even more i secure than i didn't prison. like, as i knew that the police were always at my door and that the anti terrorist unit could come from me again while i fiddled sockeye from country. the family spent 8 months in istanbul. finally, the judge decided that the ban on leaving the country would be lifted, that mashaila toller would be allowed to return to germany with her son. shortly thereafter, her husband, so at was also allowed to leave turkey. is he similar as gift? and they always said that there was

a witness who had testified against me. i had mine, and in the end my lawyer proved that there never was such an ominous witness that there never were any investigations against me and turkey kind of emma klafonya might king mission at. okay. they couldn't even prove that there ever had been my suspicion of any membership and a terrorist organization that's on the visa. that'll come. on the other hand, it did not look like journal di lan ers and her mother who's on china would be leaving the country any time. soon. on the contrary, after nearly 2 years in turkey, many months in the courts. and despite the flimsy evidence, the prosecutor surprisingly demanded. 15 years imprisonment for journal. the verdict was to be handed down a few days later on down have cuz i go, okay, the next f, as a, as when i told myself, i don't want to go to jail for 15 years. at least not for something that i didn't do. what then i summed up all my courage and thought, i don't care any more,

it's calmer. if i'm going to jail any way, i don't want to regret not having tried to get back home. escape while a house is physical by the half of this time it worked the day before the verdict. she escaped to greece and on the day of the sentencing, she excused herself due to illness. but by then she was already back in germany where we could reach her by phone to this day, she can't understand the harsh ruling guilty with a sentence of 10 years and 5 months yet at the same time, the exit ban was lifted. when alice on it consists of the fly language with aloe, my god, they will do anything not to lose faith in one of the saying, you can't sentence someone to 10 years and 5 months in prison, and then say when you're free to go, now we're done. here by done with what for by i get sentenced to prison and then i

can go home or how's again toward the next plane and fly back and how it makes no sense at all. i still don't get it. i just have to laugh. it's just inexplicable. of a, as an authorized fentler's, d foggins in relief on easter. and as i get that, i don't want to speculate about the reasons or the result is what counts. and the result is that miss oars is free and was able to leave the country for her german home hunter. how to system deals with this glaring paradox is for the system itself to figure out to be it does more so sustains over to you. is kinda the hausa tricia size that i know into when i got back home i was alone at 1st it yeah, i opened the door and everything was just away. i left it fun out from one up. why is that like less than that. so i said i was so tired after the long travel that i just got in a little and crashed on the couch. that shows all new do ashton ryan?

after court. i only woke up the day after they slept, michel nigger come over the next few months, she tried to get back to her old life. she reopened her social counseling center. a friend offered her an empty room in his office. my 9, my old business cards. i will have to change the address. oh god. emma. now look what i found did you may does. it does a little longer thing. they are from the prison. i didn't sit still in prison as you can see. she didn't feel

to everyone surprise, the exit ban on her mother was lifted one month after journals return. after 3 years in turkish captivity, or some china returned to cologne. m o, the 2 women were living together once more. and although hot on china was happy to be back in germany, she didn't feel safe there either. to cuba, among other vicki like the, the germans were very supportive. her, the german government looked off to me. but i'm still afraid there are many turkish fascists here as well. anything can happen. ha, ha girl, no, her time in turkey sometimes feels like a bad dream. oh has infinite,

finished iowa. i don't feel hatred her just a kind of disbelief and disappointment. and how can you do something like this to a person i'm it is simply stripped them of 2 years of their life. man, i could have done a 1000 other things. in the meantime, i've asked them to leave the country. it indecision says, hedges fest hasn't. and they took all of that away from me on a 2nd, on the bottom. ah, to day michelle, a tony who is living with her husband and as son in her father's house in the south of germany. after 4 years of prisons exit bands and court cases in turkey, the prosecution finally asked for an acquittal due to lack of evidence. a has evidence, i'd say you had tucked as i was so angry when i heard that the prosecution was dropping the case. however, i have been traumatized on experienced repression and live. i was kept in prison

with my 2 year old son for months on end and in horrible conditions in need to then hear the prosecutor saying that it was all for nothing. so hell thus, and that's on lives act. the fatherless, finished the turkish president has accomplished one, go. as long as he is in power, his critics like mashaila tolo good deal and ers horse on china and all the others that have been released will not set foot in turkey. and their stories will serve as a warning to his political opponents. either get her to day, i think there are more than 60 m. it was a thing. mm. dozens of germans are still being held in tacky to day. according to the german foreign office. they are kept in custody or subject to exit bats. many for political reasons, their cases do not make headlines, but they share the fate of the 3 women who have told their stories. they are or

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