Kurdish man from Ulm fights deportation to Turkey

Muhammed Tunç, a Kurdish man from Ulm, who is threatened with deportation to Turkey, is still in the Pforzheim detention center. The administrative court in Sigmaringen has not yet decided on a follow-up application to prevent the deportation.

Muhammed Tunç, a Kurdish man from Ulm, who is threatened with deportation to Turkey, is still in detention in Pforzheim. His defense attorney, Thomas Oberhäuser, has filed a follow-up application with the Sigmaringen administrative court to prevent the 32-year-old from being deported. A decision has not yet been made.

Muhammed Tunç was born and raised in Ulm in 1989 and has Turkish citizenship. In Turkey, he is exposed to the risk of political persecution, imprisonment and torture because of his pro-Kurdish activities in Germany. However, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice does not want to admit that. The authority considers the deportation to be justifiable because of a "criminal offense" in connection with two court judgments against the Kurd for harm. The convictions came after clashes with Turkish nationalists associated with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's party. According to Tunç, his name is known to the authorities in Turkey as an "enemy".

Tunç was almost deported twice. At the first appointment on 16 February, he was already on a plane at Stuttgart Airport. Only because he resisted and drew attention to his deportation did the staff refuse to keep him on board. Nevertheless, the green-black state government did not give up and ordered an expulsion by charter flight for the following day. But the Turkish Airlines plane took off in Stuttgart without Tunç.