The Turkish city of Nigde in Central Anatolia is not a place , which one would automatically importance attributed to foreign intelligence agencies. And yet appear in the predominantly agricultural province between Cappadocia and the Mediterranean Sea again recently and agents from neighboring Iran.
you are interested in a group of Iranians who have been living some time in Nigde: refugees who have settled, especially since the disputed presidential election last year from their homeland in Turkey.
thousands Iranian dissidents have fled the pressure the Tehran government in Turkey and are waiting for a better future. Many of them complain about their circumstances and the pressure of the Iranian agents. But between the Turkish and Iranian government there are no complaints. Ankara and Tehran do not want their last much-improved relations can be affected by the dissident issue, observers say.
"follow them"
3,000 to 4,000 opponents of the regime in Tehran alone since the election last year came in Turkey, Recep Korkut said by the Association for Solidarity with Asylum seekers and refugees who cares in Nigde to the Iranians. Above all, students and journalists were among the refugees, said Korkut - which is why the Iranian intelligence agents appear in Nigde. "They follow them," Korkut said.
Some Iranian refugees even reported that they had been threatened by Iranian agents. One of them recently said three men had set him for an interview with foreign reporters a knife to the throat.
the Iranians do not live voluntarily in Nigde province and other Central Anatolian cities. Because the Turkish legislation does not provide asylum for refugees from non-European countries to have a total of about 6,000 Iranians in Turkey to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR contact. The UN representative, they may recognize as political refugees: A prerequisite is that the Iranians find a third country that receives them.
warning of human rights Tribunal
Until it was recognized, however, can take three years, during which time the Iranians are tolerated by the Turkish authorities, no more. You will receive a work permit and must adhere to their assigned places of residence as reported regularly in Nigde to the police. Many work illegally in order to stay afloat.
is rare that the Iranians are politically active. In the past week, many of them demonstrated outside the Iranian Embassy in Ankara and demanded the release of all political prisoners in their homes. But tensions between the two governments are not, therefore, says the Turkish Foreign Office. There was no pressure from Iran, the refugees to return home again. Attempts
have won the Turkish authorities. Several times, the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, Turkey warned against such deportations, because the parties in Iran and in some cases severe reprisals could face the death penalty. As a member of the Council of Europe, Turkey is bound by the rulings from Strasbourg.
against UN sanctions voted
Ankara and Tehran set to work, their relationships are not the issue burdening, Sinan Ogan, head of the Political Institute in Ankara says Türksam. "They have become accustomed."
In recent years, the ratio of the two countries have become better and better. Turkey was one of the first states to the controversial election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year recognized. In June, Turkey voted in the UN Security Council for new sanctions against Iran in connection with Tehran's nuclear program.
Behind the Turkish-Iran policy is the idea that effective relations with Tehran as a precondition for such influence in the nuclear dispute is essential. Iran needs Turkey to an even to avoid greater international isolation - Controversy over dissidents would not fit because the picture.
"only a formality"
would now and then the Iranians called representations Although the arrest of a dissident, Ogan says, "But this is just a formality." Tehran do not expect that Turkey fulfills the requirements. Iran knows that Turkey can not deliver any opponents of the regime, without any international Agreement. On the other hand, Turkey respects the fact that the Iranian dissidents start on Turkish soil, "no action against the regime" as Ogan says.
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