To Christine - a thank you

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), May 10, 2008 at 18:49

You are wonderful to offer your help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I honestly think this was all my fault for being so naive and just plain stupid and desperate so it's up to me to deal with it.

The husband is still in Turkey as Canada refused him a visa ( i'm canadian ) and also he won't be going anywhere else for a while :) This requires an explanation...Because he was planning to marry another woman as soon as he got free of me, he kept his ID card saying he was single and then used this to get his passport when we were doing the immigration. Thus his passport says he's single.

He then tried applying for a visa to Germany and made the mistake of telling me about this beforehand so i contacted the embassy and said my husband was going to lie on his application. They received my faxed marriage certificate and when he submitted his application and they questioned him about marital status, sure enough he lied :) His visa was refused.

I believe the woman is ( or was ) in Germany and i say this because it seemed essential for him to portray himself as single. I got lucky at this point - the embassy did something they don't normally do - they emailed me to thank me. I had warned them about his hatred of the west and christians so hence the thank you. It was this email that i sent to all the first world countries outside of the EU ( he's automatically banned for 3 years from going to any of them ). The USA replied and said they have his name on their list :) I really got him good :)

As for alimony, in these countries they erroneously assume we are all rolling in money and thus the alimony is less than 200 CDN a month which he refuses to pay. Turkish legal aid appointed a second lawyer to go after it but she has done nothing. She was supposed to force the money to come straight from his pay cheque. That never happened and she won't respond to me. Court systems are very slow and they just don't care. What i need is a good job to save up enough to get a real lawyer to go after him and that's taking a long time. I have met a lawyer i trust but need to save the money.

Criminal court is coming up soon - maybe justice will prevail for once but i doubt it. His assault against me was small potatoes compared to what goes on there. He'll have to pay a small fine if anything and there won't be any compensation awarded to me.

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