• 06/06/2022
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He brutally tortured a woman, then demanded children. He lost that right by his actions, the court said<

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In September, we broadcast a report about Kurd Nurettin Erdogan, who was proven to have physically abused his wife.

"I had police protection for two years," Kristýna says tremblingly. The editors know her identity, but have agreed not to publish it due to concerns about her safety. Today, the woman also lives with her children in a secret place and does not even want to reveal where she works.

She met her husband in 2007 through her friend. They started a business together, opened a kebab shop, but when Nurettin got a residence permit thanks to his family, everything started to change.

Her husband brutally abused her. As evidenced by the photos from the court file, which the editors were able to study, these were physical attacks. About foul language and humiliation. He repeatedly called his wife a bitch and a dog (and also whistled at her like a dog). He threatened her that if she left him with the children, he would kill her and the children. Or his relatives, who also run kebab shops in the country and in Germany, will do so.

Everything culminated in a criminal complaint and sentence that sent Erdogan to prison. An expert opinion characterized him as a dangerous psychopath with reduced intelligence.

"He didn't behave any better in court either," recalls Martin Horčic, Kristýna's legal representative. "He slammed his hand into the wall in anger until it broke, threatening the court to detonate a bomb there and the like."

Even after two years, the court did not determine the punishment for the brutal attack in front of the Prague club

Delicts attributed to Erdogan by the police increased. For example, he was accused of smashing a customer's head with a wooden stick.

Nevertheless, he was released on parole halfway through his sentence for assaulting Kristýna. He was soon back in prison for violating his parole - he immediately started assaulting his wife again.

Kristýna suffered another shock when he started asking from prison to be able to maintain contact with his children, whom, by the way, he never paid for.

Kristýna refused, saying that intercourse was not possible. The youngest of the children - a preschooler - last saw his father when he was six months old, before Nurettin was locked up. And the older daughter is autistic. She is unable to communicate normally, only in her special language with her mother.

The Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem nevertheless decided that communication would be by correspondence. And when this decision turned out to be unfeasible, because the children are unable to correspond with their father, the District Court in Česká Lípa issued a preliminary measure, according to which the mother and the children should regularly appear in some neutral room, where the children would connect with the father in prison via video.

"According to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, a child has the right to a father. So why not give it a try? If it doesn't work, we'll see what happens next," commented Judge Marcela Janušková, who issued the preliminary measure, for Seznam Zprávy.

The authorities took the newly born child from the blameless mother. He was wrong, don't expect an apology

Kristýna's lawyer rejected such a solution: "Every contact with a person who physically attacked and threatened her is extremely traumatizing for the mother," objected Martin Horčic. "In addition, she takes care of the children herself, feeds them. At the same time, she should pick them up from the special educational facilities where they are located, travel to Prague at her own expense, take time off for this, and given that she is on probation, her employer would probably sooner or later conclude that such an employee he doesn't need."

Not even expert opinions were in favor of such a relationship. "He's not interested in anything other than being able to point to the fact that he has a functioning family after serving his sentence so that he can be pardoned from deportation after serving his sentence. And if he then wants to meet the children in person, who will guarantee that he will not take them illegally abroad and I will never see them again?" Kristýna was afraid.

Can the human rights of a convicted rapist take precedence over the rights of his victim? we asked a rhetorical question even then, because Nurettin's case opened up a much broader topic concerning other mothers and convicts.

After the broadcast of the report, the courts returned to the case.

And they intervened on behalf of abused women and their children. "The Regional Court drew attention to the decision of the Constitutional Court that, with intentional criminal activity, a parent also intentionally waives the right to care," commented attorney Horčic on the move. "Now it has been decided that contact will not be carried out through some organization, there will be no contact by phone, or through a video conference. The mother was ordered to mediate the children's written and pictorial communication with the father, and he can write to the children several times a month."

What pitfalls does such a solution have? And what more general signal does the decision send? What is the opinion of Nurettin himself, whom we asked for a statement through his lawyer?

You will find out in the introductory report. The video is part of the program Mysteries of Josef Klíma, which is broadcast by Televize Seznam in the premiere every Thursday from 20:00. You can find the program archive here.