Source: Assist News Service
Sedar Dedeoglu, a Turk who claims to be a descendant of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, has converted to Christianity in Germany. Dedeoglu is involved in Christian outreach programs among Muslims. As a result he frequently receives death threats from Muslims unwilling to accept his conversion. Oswald Seitter, Dedeoglu’s attorney, says it’s impossible to overlook the extraordinary danger that his family is facing. In Dedeoglu’s hometown in Turkey, family members were revered as a “holy.” Dedeoglu’s conversion makes him an “apostate” and is regarded as an insult of the prophet himself. If Dedeoglu returned to his native country, he would likely be killed. In spite of this threat, the German Federal Migration Office and several courts of justice have rejected asylum applications by the Dedeoglu family, claiming that Christians are free to practice their religion in Turkey. To avoid deportation Dedeoglu, his wife, Husniye, and their daughter, Isil, now hope to be tolerated in Germany as a “case of hardship.”
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