One Letter Denies Baby Entry into Turkey

türkçe links to original Turkısh article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 August 2018)

one-letter nightmare see this recent TNT report for a similar fiasco.


Really, just a pretext to keep this 8-month old terrorist at bay.


When Muhammed Taha was not allowed to enter Turkey it was
determined that the reason lay in a one-letter mistake in a German
hospital. Taha's mother Latife Aydoğdu was born in Bremen in
January 1990.  Although her name was Latife, her name was
recorded as 'Latifa' at the hospital there.

Latife's parents did not have their daughter registered at the Hanover
Turkish Consulate General, registering her instead on the birth records
related to her grandfather in Iskenderun, in southeast Turkey, where
her name was recorded as 'Latife, rather than the 'Latifa' recorded on
the German hospital's registry. 

No one ever imagined that this mix-up would come back to haunt
Latife 28 years later, when she gave birth to Taha Muhammed.  But
when the child's mother's name did not match Turkish records, the
8 month-old child was denied entry into Turkey (!).  Latife Aydoğdu
explained that "we wanted to register my baby at the Hanover
Consulate General so they wanted my birth certificate.  But my name
on the birth certificate is different from my name on my passport.
The officials at the Consulate said we could only rectify this situation
through the Turkish courts."

Aydoğdu said that her mother-in-law is seriously ill so they wanted
her to see Taha Muhammed, which is why they went to Turkey.
Hürriyet asked the Hanover Consulate for an explanation and was
told "the information on the baby's birth certificate must be the
same as the information on the parents' birth records."


Grandpa's hometown İskenderun.