Cemal Kemal ALTUN escaped the fascist militry coup in Turkey and aplied political asylum in Germany. 30th of August 1983 his asylum claim was rejectet by the administrative court in Berlin.
After several talks with minister Öney, representatives of the Ministry of Integration, the head of Stuttgart police, the Ordnungsamt, as well as doctors we decided to suspend the hunger strike, which was going on for 5 days.
We worked and lived in Libya, a country on our African continent, that gave us the possibility of a secure existence. We never had the intention to come to Europe. Because of the NATO-intervention, officially for the „protection of the civil population“, the war escalated and and we lost everything. Many people lost their lives. Some of us were sent with overcrowded boats over the Mediterranean. This is how we got to Lampedusa. Many died in the Mediterranean.
Protest in and in front of the City Hall
Supporters of the group "Lampedusa in Hamburg" are demanding from the Hamburg Senate:
to end to the ignorance - a political solution is needed!
On July 18th at noon about 40 people went to the City Hall to express their reluctance about the attitude of the Hamburg Senate against the Libyan war refugees and to demand a conversation.
