(Deutsche Welle) “Living in fear and uncertainty every day, expecting the police to come back and snatch us from our beds, take us to the station and torture us … we couldn’t stand it anymore. After the death of my father, we decided to leave the country,” said B.K., a former English teacher who didn’t want to give his full name.
Speaking with a calm and quiet voice, he told DW the story about how he and his wife had headed for the dangerous waters of the Aegean Sea on November 1, arriving in Germany seven weeks later. They have been living in refugee accommodation facilities ever since, currently in a big center near Aachen in western Germany.
After both being charged as members of the “Gülen organization” in Turkey, they have now applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting the government’s decision.
