5.4 The author recalls that, in his appeal to the Swiss Appeal
Commission on Asylum Matters, he was prepared to give his friend's
name and address on condition that that information was not used by
the Swiss Embassy in order to carry out inquiries into their
relationship.
5.5 Concerning the inquiries carried out by the Swiss authorities in
Turkey, the author considers that it is impossible for a Turkish
security organization to give such information to Switzerland. As to
the apartment in Mersin, the author did not consider that information
to be sufficiently important. Furthermore, it was not true that they had
moved completely from Elazig to go and live in Mersin, as the Swiss
authorities maintained. Consequently, it could not be said that it was
impossible for the author to be arrested in Elazig.
5.6 As to the veracity of the medical examination conducted by Dr.
M., if the Federal Office for Refugees had not contested the veracity
of the torture in 1993, the author wonders why the possibility that he
was still traumatized by that torture should be ruled out, when it was
known that he had been forced to remain standing in freezing water
and that his fingers had been squeezed with pincers. Furthermore, Dr.
M.'s description of the report as an "expert report" was motivated by
the request made by the Federal Office for Refugees. However, the
State party had provided no information as to the form that the report
should take. Similarly, the psychiatric diagnosis of post-traumatic
stress disorder does not depend on measurable objective signs. In any
judicial procedure, if the medical report is considered to be
unsatisfactory, a second report must be requested.
5.7 In the opinion of the State party, the author's brothers have not
been persecuted in Istanbul and Izmir because of him. Moreover, the
State party considers that the author and his family could return to
Turkey without any problem. However, the arrest of the author's
eldest son is not contested. In this connection, the author maintains
that his brothers and sisters live in Istanbul and that he had little
contact with them; furthermore, they were too far from Elazig to be
able to give any information about him. As to the author's eldest son,
he has not lived in Elazig since the time the author arrived in
Switzerland. The year the author left, the son moved to Istanbul to
live with his family.
5.8 As to the State party's argument that the author has ceased to
work for PSK since his arrival in Switzerland, the author states that
PSK is very active in Switzerland, notably in Lausanne and Basel, but