Murat Kurnaz

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Full Name	Murat Kurnaz
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1982(1982-03-19)
Age	42
Country	Germany
Birth City	Bremen
Horoscope	Pisces

Murat Kurnaz Biography

Murat Kurnaz is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 19, 1982 in Bremen, Germany. Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen, was born 19 March 1982. He was extrajudicially detained by the United States at Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo bay Naval Base, Cuba, beginning December 2001. Both places alleged that he was tortured. In 2002, intelligence officers from Germany and the United States concluded that Kurnaz’s allegations were unfounded.

In 2002, both American and German intelligence agencies concluded that Kurnaz had not been involved in terrorist activities. These conditions led to Kurnaz being held at Guantanamo and then brutally tortured for five years until 2007.

Kurnaz’s lawyer challenged the legality of his detention in a Washington, D.C. federal court. A writ of habeas corpus, Murat Kurnaz v. George W. Bush, was submitted on his behalf in October 2004. His case was one of nearly 60 reviewed and coordinated by Judge Joyce Hens Green of the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia.

In October 2004, after two years of abuse and weeks after the tribunal had classified him as an “enemy combatant”, a civilian American lawyer, Professor Baher Azmy from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), succeeded in getting an interview with Kurnaz. Professor Azmy brought a handwritten letter from Kurnaz’s mother, proof that his family knew of his situation and was working for his release. His mother’s German lawyer had heard that the US Center for Constitutional Rights represented Guantánamo detainees; they contacted the CCR, who assigned Azmy to the case. Azmy also showed Kurnaz newspaper and magazine clippings about his case. Kurnaz was one of the first three Guantanamo prisoners allowed to see an attorney.

According to the file, neither US Army nor German investigators had found evidence linking Kurnaz with Al-Qaeda or any involvement in terrorist activities. They concluded that Kurnaz should be released in 2002. However, the US authorities kept Kurnaz at Guantanamo until the end of 2006, where he was subject to abuses and interrogations.

Murat Kurnaz Net Worth

Murat Kurnaz is one of the richest Writer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Murat Kurnaz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Murat Kurnaz was a German citizen who was born in Bremen. He grew up there. His parents, who were Turkish immigrants, considered him a Turkish citizen. However, they had lived and worked for many years in Germany. He was a legal German citizen and married a Turkish girl in Germany. Kurnaz, aged 19, traveled from Germany to Pakistan in October 2001 to study at Mansura Center. He was turned down by the Mansura Center. Kurnaz spent the next two years as a tablighi (a Muslim pilgrim who travels from mosque to mosque). Kurnaz was returning to Germany by bus when he was stopped by Pakistani police at a border checkpoint. After questioning him for several days, the Pakistani police detained him and turned him over to American soldiers. Kurnaz later learned that the United States had distributed flyers in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the attacks on September 11, 2001, promising “enough money for your family, village, and tribe for the rest your life”. This bounty was for suspected terrorists. Kurnaz claims that many men ended up in Guantanamo because of this. Kurnaz was confirmed by Guantanamo’s interrogators that he had been “sold.”

Soldiers who had dropped the Koran on the ground floor were emptied out of their toilet bowls by inmates. Inmates emptied their toilet buckets over soldiers who had thrown the Koran on the dirt floor during General Geoffrey Miller’s command in 2002. Inmates called him “Mr. Toilet.” Kurnaz reported that prisoners were given an additional month in isolation for dumping excrement onto General Miller. The rations were reduced by half for the next forty days.

In response, on 15 October 2004, the Department of Defense published 32 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. In 2005, Kurnaz’s entire file was declassified, through a bureaucratic slip-up. During the brief window when it was declassified, in March 2005 the Washington Post reviewed all the evidence against him and published a summary.

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In 2007, a German Parliamentary inquiry undertook investigation of the extent to which German military and counter-terrorism authorities participated in the United States extraordinary rendition program.

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Murat Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Murat Kurnaz celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.

After finally being released, Kurnaz wrote a memoir of his years at Guantanamo, which was published in German in 2007 and in English the following year. The following sections contain mostly material from his account. He said that he was chained to the floor of an aircraft with other prisoners and kicked and beaten by US soldiers during a flight to Kandahar. Upon his arrival, although his head was covered with a sack, he could make out soldiers filming and photographing them. Later the US released such photos to the media as “evidence” of his capture in the Afghanistan war zone—although Kurnaz and all the prisoners had just been flown in from Pakistan.