I have a friend who is a member of the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] and so they suspected me of being PKK. They tortured me to say that I was a member of the PKK. From the Iraqi side, the authorities do not like PKK members because they cause problems for the Kurdish government in northern Iraq. They treated me very badly in the jail in Kirkuk.138 The 28-year-old Sabean man, who was deported from Greece to Turkey,139 told Human Rights Watch how the Turks then deported him to Iraq: They took us to the Edirne jail for two days where they treated us very badly. They beat us, insulted us, and gave us bad food. If you asked for water, they kicked you. Then, the Turks took us on a bus to the Iraqi border crossing at Zakho and turned us over to the Kurdish authorities. We were handcuffed. The Iraqi Kurds held 65 of us in a room for four days. They questioned me. I told the Kurdish official that I was a Sabean and that I suffered discrimination in the street, at work, everywhere. He didn’t say anything. I told him I didn’t have my ID and that I would have a problem if they returned me. He told me that it wasn’t his problem. The Kurds took me in handcuffs in a police car and released me on the other side of Kirkuk. I waited for two weeks for a friend to send me a new ID, and then I went back to Baghdad. I fled the country again as soon as I had enough money.140 Indefinite Detention to Pay for Own Removal Turkish law places no time limit on the detention of undocumented migrants.141 The Turkish authorities appear to use indefinite detention as a means of coercing detainees 138 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-23), Athens, May 28, 2008. 139 See Returns under the Greece-Turkey Readmission Agreement, above. 140 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-13), Athens, May 26, 2008. 141 Administrative detention of undocumented migrants is regulated by Article 23 of Law 5683 on the Travel and Residence of Foreigners in Turkey, which reads: “Those that cannot leave Turkey - despite a decision of expulsion- because of absence of a Stuck in a Revolving Door 62

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