GY pursuing the Canadian dream (retouched to protect identity)
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It's hard for any refugee claimant, nowadays, to
convince Canada's Immigration & Refugee Board (IRB) that he or she
is a real refugee since most claims are rejected offhand as lacking
credibility. This claimant's problem isn't that the Board didn't believe
him. His problem is that the IRB was only too willing to believe
everything he said about the story allegedly created by a member of a
terrorist organisation, and his claim was rejected for the wrong
reasons.
Like many "economic refugees" that Canada just loathes GY thought his only option to remain in Canada was to apply for refugee status after he dumped his Canadian wife. His father HY, who's a naturalised Canadian citizen and drives a late model BMW, says this is a stupid kid that just doesn't listen to advice from his elders. Although he lacks any formal education and hardly speaks any English let alone his native tongue, HY has successfully helped many inhabitants of his village in the old country settle in Canada. Judging by his car and brand-new SUV, he knows more about business and the system than the millions of university-educated immigrants that are barely scraping a living in this country. HY spent hours trying to convince me that his son is no good and stupid, and I'm convinced that he's probably stupider than others involved in his case.
Since professional help is expensive, and daddy wasn't willing to pay for a lawyer or consultant to draft his application, GY decided to use the free services offered by a Burnaby fast-food vendor who, he says, is a member of the local chapter of the PKK terrorist organisation. PKK, an acronym for Kurdistan Workers Party, is the separatist guerrilla group that has been fighting the Turkish Government for three decades. After being declared a terrorist organisation the PKK went underground in Canada, but still carries on its fund-raising and lobbying activities through immigrants of Kurdish extraction, many of whom were accepted as refugees.
According to the graphically explicit story submitted to the Immigration Board, and which GY says is a complete fabrication, GY killed and tortured Kurdish civilians in Eastern Turkey when he was serving in the Turkish Army as an infantryman. He told the Board that he and other soldiers often shot at and tortured civilians because they did not know if they were PKK terrorists or innocent peasants. The Burnaby "Donair Guy" told him to make sure that he recount at the interview graphic details of how he tortured people under orders, which he did. He was then recruited after completing military service, as the story goes, by JITEM, an allegedly secret Turkish gendarmerie intelligence unit, to spy on fellow Kurds. Although he volunteered his services as a spy, he now feels persecuted by Turkey so Canada should accept him as a refugee.
The IRB Member, who's the equivalent of an administrative tribunal judge, believed the whole story. In her written decision she said the story fits in with the Board's own information (from the same PKK Donair Guy or other fast-food vendors ?). Unfortunately for GY, Canada considers the killing of civilians and employing torture to be war crimes. Those who commit war crimes not only cannot be accepted as refugees under the law, but they are inadmissible to Canada under any condition, period. The Member referred GY to the government for an admissibility hearing.
HY says he hired a lawyer for his son's admissibility hearing in July, and the lawyer turned out to be completely incompetent. Although GY retracted his story and told them about the PKK Donair Guy, the government decided to err on the side of war crimes and declared GY a war criminal that is inadmissible to Canada.
In a posting placed 4 days ago on the Canada Border Services Agency web site Government of Canada stressed its policy that the country will not be a safe haven for war criminals of any kind.
For those unfamiliar with Eastern Mediterranean cuisine, Donair is the name of meat roasted on a rotating spit often served as a sandwich in pita bread with tsatziki sauce and a whole variety of other garnishes (no metaphor intended for Canada's administrative tribunals). Greeks call it Gyros, Arabs call it Shawarma. For a great Donair experience, unlike the Donair GY was served, I'd recommend the Donair Dude on Davie Street in Vancouver.
Like many "economic refugees" that Canada just loathes GY thought his only option to remain in Canada was to apply for refugee status after he dumped his Canadian wife. His father HY, who's a naturalised Canadian citizen and drives a late model BMW, says this is a stupid kid that just doesn't listen to advice from his elders. Although he lacks any formal education and hardly speaks any English let alone his native tongue, HY has successfully helped many inhabitants of his village in the old country settle in Canada. Judging by his car and brand-new SUV, he knows more about business and the system than the millions of university-educated immigrants that are barely scraping a living in this country. HY spent hours trying to convince me that his son is no good and stupid, and I'm convinced that he's probably stupider than others involved in his case.
Since professional help is expensive, and daddy wasn't willing to pay for a lawyer or consultant to draft his application, GY decided to use the free services offered by a Burnaby fast-food vendor who, he says, is a member of the local chapter of the PKK terrorist organisation. PKK, an acronym for Kurdistan Workers Party, is the separatist guerrilla group that has been fighting the Turkish Government for three decades. After being declared a terrorist organisation the PKK went underground in Canada, but still carries on its fund-raising and lobbying activities through immigrants of Kurdish extraction, many of whom were accepted as refugees.
According to the graphically explicit story submitted to the Immigration Board, and which GY says is a complete fabrication, GY killed and tortured Kurdish civilians in Eastern Turkey when he was serving in the Turkish Army as an infantryman. He told the Board that he and other soldiers often shot at and tortured civilians because they did not know if they were PKK terrorists or innocent peasants. The Burnaby "Donair Guy" told him to make sure that he recount at the interview graphic details of how he tortured people under orders, which he did. He was then recruited after completing military service, as the story goes, by JITEM, an allegedly secret Turkish gendarmerie intelligence unit, to spy on fellow Kurds. Although he volunteered his services as a spy, he now feels persecuted by Turkey so Canada should accept him as a refugee.
The IRB Member, who's the equivalent of an administrative tribunal judge, believed the whole story. In her written decision she said the story fits in with the Board's own information (from the same PKK Donair Guy or other fast-food vendors ?). Unfortunately for GY, Canada considers the killing of civilians and employing torture to be war crimes. Those who commit war crimes not only cannot be accepted as refugees under the law, but they are inadmissible to Canada under any condition, period. The Member referred GY to the government for an admissibility hearing.
HY says he hired a lawyer for his son's admissibility hearing in July, and the lawyer turned out to be completely incompetent. Although GY retracted his story and told them about the PKK Donair Guy, the government decided to err on the side of war crimes and declared GY a war criminal that is inadmissible to Canada.
In a posting placed 4 days ago on the Canada Border Services Agency web site Government of Canada stressed its policy that the country will not be a safe haven for war criminals of any kind.
For those unfamiliar with Eastern Mediterranean cuisine, Donair is the name of meat roasted on a rotating spit often served as a sandwich in pita bread with tsatziki sauce and a whole variety of other garnishes (no metaphor intended for Canada's administrative tribunals). Greeks call it Gyros, Arabs call it Shawarma. For a great Donair experience, unlike the Donair GY was served, I'd recommend the Donair Dude on Davie Street in Vancouver.
Bron: http://www.examiner.com/article/canada-declares-bogus-turkish-refugee-a-war-criminal
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