Adil Yiğit

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Ertuğrul "Adil" Yiğit (born April 24, 1958 in Malatya , Turkey ) is a Turkish journalist who has lived in Hamburg since the early 1980s. He is considered a staunch critic of authoritarian regimes, particularly Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .

Life

Living in and escaping from Turkey

Ertuğrul Yiğit joined the left in the late 1970s. In 1978, he saw two nationalists shoot a friend of his in the head. His testimony brought the killers to justice. But he lived in fear and decided to move to Istanbul because he felt safer there. He became a member of the militant Marxist organization Devrimci Sol (Dev Sol), the Revolutionary Left, and participated in squatting. He barely survived a Gray Wolf bombing and decided to flee.

In 1983 in Hamburg he saw his friend Kemal Altun jump out of the window after his asylum application was rejected. He then decided to apply for asylum in France, which was granted to him within six days. After marrying the journalist Anita Friedetzky , he moved with her to Hamburg because she had been commissioned to set up the taz office there. He became active in the left-wing extremist scene in Hamburg, forged passports for members of Dev Sol and wrote the first articles for the taz . During a raid on an apartment for which he paid the rent (according to another source in a travel agency he rented), the police found a forgery workshop and a weapons depot, including a submachine gun and plastic explosives, in 1996. Yiğit fled to Turkey with false papers and was only arrested two years later while visiting Hamburg.

Family and Social

At the beginning of 1999, Yiğit was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison in Hamburg. After his release from prison, he used the first name " Adil ", no longer Ertuğrul. He lives separately from his second wife, who has moved abroad with his daughters, who is German, and is dependent on social benefits.

Work as a journalist

Yiğit works as a freelance journalist for the daily newspaper (taz), Die Zeit and several Turkish opposition newspapers . He also runs the Turkish-language Internet platform Avrupa Postası (Europa Post).

At the press conference of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chancellor Angela Merkel on September 28, 2018 in Berlin, Yiğit wore a T-shirt that read "Freedom of the press for journalists in Turkey" in Turkish and German. He was taken away by security guards as no political demonstrations or rallies are allowed at press conferences.

On October 28, 2018, Yiğit informed the dpa that Germany had refused to extend his previous residence permit and instead had given him a new residence permit for humanitarian reasons. Yiğit said, however, that he did not want to take advantage of it because he now had to apply for an extension more frequently than before. He believes that Germany wants to get rid of him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ali Çelikkan: Ertuğrul "Adil" Yiğit, after 30 years in Germany before deportation , taz, January 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Marthe Ruddat: “I will be punished” , taz Nord, February 5, 2018.
  3. ^ A b c Hubert Gude: Hamburg wants to deport Erdogan critics to Turkey , Spiegel Online, January 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Journalist is led away in front of the cameras , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Security officers take photographers at Erdogan press conference , FAZ, September 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ Germany shows Turkish Erdogan critics. In: DW.com (Deutsche Welle). October 28, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Germany shows Turkish Erdogan critic Adil Yigit . Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 28, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 . .
  8. ↑ Jan Sternberg: Erdogan critic has to leave the country by January . In: haz.de (Hannoversche Allgemeine). October 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de: Journalist Yigit: The alleged deportation. Accessed October 31, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ tagesschau.de: Immigration authorities deny expulsion of Yigit. October 29, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Yiğit, Adil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yiğit, Ertuğrul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist; lives in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya