Seda Basay-Yildiz

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Seda Başay-Yıldız with Abdulkerim Şimşek on the day of the verdict in the NSU trial, 2018-07-11

Seda Başay-Yıldız is a German lawyer.

Life[]

Seda Basay-Yildiz was born in Marburg, Hesse.^[1] She studied law and works in a law firm in Frankfurt am Main. Seda Basay-Yildiz is married and is mother of one child.^{[citation needed]}

Work[]

For five years, Seda Basay-Yildiz represented the family of the first murder victim of the right-wing terrorist cell "National Socialist Underground", the Hessian florist Enver Şimşek at NSU trial until 2018.

In May 2018, the suspected ISIS supporter Haikel S. was deported to Tunisia. He had tried to stop his deportation at the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. He failed in both courts because there is no official death penalty in Tunisia. Until his deportation, Seda Ba'ay-Yildiz represented Haikel S. as a lawyer.

Seda Ba'ay-Yildiz defended several men who were classified by the authorities as "Islamist threats" (potential terrorists). The case of the alleged bodyguard of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, Sami A., became known. It reached the fact that the city of Bochum was fined 10,000 Euros for ignoring the courts and simply deporting the man to Tunisia. The administrative court in Gelsenkirchen said the deportation was "grossly unlawful."^{[citation needed]}

Süddeutsche Zeitung described Seda Basay-Yildiz work as "friendly in tone, tough on the matter."^[2]

Threat from far-right extremists[]

In August 2018, shortly after Sami A.'s deportation was declared wrong, Yildiz received a fax from a group or person who signed with "NSU 2.0". In the message the offenders to "slaughter" her young daughter. The sender gave the name of the at this time two-year-old and the family's not-so-public address. The investigating state protection came across a query on the service computer of a Frankfurt police station. There, The reporting address of Yildiz had been queried. The State Protection identified by this reference five police officers from Hessen state police, who sent swastikas and Hitler pictures in a WhatsApp group. As a result, Hessian politics also dealt with far-right police officers and right-wing ideas with the state police.^[3] The four suspects and one official remain silent on the allegations and have been suspended.

In December 2018, Yildiz received another fax from the "NSU 2.0". This letter, too, is again based on internal data from the police system. The letter clearly refers to the suspension of the Frankfurt police officers. Again, her entire family is threatened with death; her daughter will be "ripped off her head". Here, too, the name of Ba'ay-Yaldz's father, her mother, her husband and her daughter, i.e. all the people who are registered at her address, is mentioned.^[4][5]

Yildiz noted that this information could not be obtained via social media. Her father is 79 and does not use Facebook. According to the daily newspaper, the fax was received by Ba'ay-Yaldz on 20 December 2018 – one day after a special meeting of the Hessian Committee on the Interior on the police scandal. "There can be no other way than the police computer," Yildiz said. The police offered to obtain her a firearms licence.

So far, the police and the public prosecutor's office have not been able to identify the persons behind the threatening letters; apparently the faxes cannot be traced back.

In February 2019 Seda Basay-Yildiz received a fourth threatening letter with the signature "NSU 2.0". The letter was sent directly to her law firm and was identical in presentation to the earlier threatening letters.^[6]

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