Desperate Kurd plays final asylum card
Man hoping to escape persecution files last-minute special residency bid
By MASAMI ITO
Staff writer
The 42-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker's wife and four children fled back to Turkey more than a year ago, terrified about the radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, but he stayed on, in limbo, hoping beyond hope that he would be permitted to remain in Japan.
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