TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo A Kurdish m...

TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo

A Kurdish man with Turkish citizenship, his Filipino wife and their 3-year-old daughter filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to turn topsy-turvy the Justice Ministry's decision to deport them for overstaying their visas.

Their case ensues just days after a similar case involving a Myanmar national, his Filipino wife and their sum of two units daughters broke new domain in Japan's immigration and refugee policies.

onward Tuesday, Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa granted Khin Maung Latt, the Myanmar national, and his family temporary residency permits despite court rulings supporting the immigration authority's refusal to give them refugee status.

Friday's suit was filed at the Tokyo District Court by dint of lawyer Takeshi Ohhashi, acting forward behalf of the plaintiffs since the pair are being detained according to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau.

The case of Taskin, 28 and his family, touches upon both the issue of Kurdish asylum inquirers and the authorities breaking up a family, the lawyer said. The lawyer asked that they be identified by dint of their family names solely and their child by her first name.

With the deportation order, Taskin will be sent to Turkey and his wife Beltran and their daughter Zilan, who confine Philippine citizenship, to the Philippines. Taskin is now upon his fourth appeal for refugee status.

Kurd living in Japan claim they are distressingly discriminated against in Turkey and could face arrest or torture if they are sent hearthstone Taskin fled to Japan to escape service in the Turkish military because it has attacked Kurd supporters said.

In a pres parley after filing the suit, Ohhashi said he called upon the immigration authorities to reexamine the latest case, and asked for immediate temporary release of Taskin's 37-year-old wife.

Taskin and his wife have been detained since Jan. 28 Their daughter is below the care of Beltran's sister, who is married to a Japanese.

''What the immigration authorities are doing is going without of their way to tear apart a family,'' Ohhashi said in an interview earlier.

The lawyer said the case ''goe beyond the moot point of Kurdish asylum inquirers alone'' and touches on children's rights as defend ed by international agreements.

As in the case of the Latts, the public language of the family is Japanese, and Zilan was born and raised in Japan. The leash who each have lived in Japan for more than a decade, started living together in 1999 and married in 2001 Zilan was born in January that year.

Ohhashi, who belongs to a 26-member assign places to of lawyers working for Kurdish asylum inquirers expressed hope the case could raise public attention and affect about the plight of Kurd in Japan and elsewhere.

According to Ohhashi and Kurd in Japan, no Kurd with Turkish citizenship who applied for refugee status has continually been granted such status in Japan since Kurd began applying for refugee status in 1996 disclosed of a total of 336 refugee claims in 2003 by dint of people of various nationalities, Japan accepted sole 10.

Ohhashi said he believes Japan does not want to recognize a Kurd as meriting refugee status because that would be tantamount to recognizing the Turkish government's human rights violations against Kurds

Tokyo immigration records of the number of refugee applicants in the past five years point out the number of Kurdish asylum inquirers staying in the top three Last year, they numbered 77

Taskin grew up in a Kurdish village in southeastern Turkey as a Muslim and fl to Japan in 1991 at age 17 as he was to go through medical checks for military service in Turkey

Turkey and Japan have a visa-waiver arrangement, which allows Turkish nationals to stay in Japan for up to three months

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