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Kurdish man's family to be get special residency status

Tuesday 25th March, 01:49 PM JST

TOKYO —

The family of a Kurdish man will be granted special residency status for one year, Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama said at a news conference Tuesday. Hatoyama suggested the Justice Ministry has given the daughter of the family, who is a first grader at an elementary school, special consideration for humanitarian reasons.

The family consists of the 32-year-old Kurdish man of Turkish nationality, his 41-year-old Filipino wife and their 7-year-old daughter. The man applied for refugee status on the grounds that the Kurdish people are suffering persecution, but faced a deportation order in January 2004.

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5 Comments

  • masako123 at 03:28 PM JST - 25th March

    actually reading this news remind me the days i was at turkey the kurds that i respected a lot and i went to east turkey what i saw there shocked me . the kurds has 4 wife religious people and i saw that they could blow a school with student inside.kurds must stop terorist attacks in turkey with terrorism you can t get youre rights.its like bin ladin -kurds are doing the same thing must change there brains....... with regards masako ijima

  • masako123 at 03:33 PM JST - 25th March

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  • sukebeoyagi at 04:02 PM JST - 25th March

    Turkey always shocked me, especially their football hooligans. Good look to this guy, he should'nt have to be sent back there...

  • Kronos at 09:49 PM JST - 25th March

    I agree with Masako123. You have to take what that Kurdish man is saying with a pinch of salt. There are many Kurds currently living in Turkey and do not face danger of persecution. Unfortunately, there are also some Kurds who are members of PKK, a terorist organization (recognized as such internationally including Japan) which kills innocent people in southeast Turkey. I am very skeptical about his intention of staying in Japan.

    Why doesn't he go to Phillipines. His wife is a Filipina. Does he not have a better chance there?

    And to sukebeoyagi, you point is irrelevant. If we are going to talk about sports, then he should not go to UK as well (remember Heysel stadium disaster?)

  • Tatanka at 12:53 PM JST - 26th March

    So they will give a draft-dodger "special permanent residence" and he won't have to be fingerprinted every time he enters the country?

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