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

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