A child custody story to watch?
My company gets lots of unsolicited messages from people around the world looking to get something published. Today as I was cleaning out our catch-all address, erasing several hundred spam notes and forwarding or responding to the two or three messages that actually needed attention, I saw this press release from someone at Turkey’s Dogan News Agency. (The text is sic.)
JAPANESE MOTHER STRUGGLES TO HAVE DAUGHTER BACK
Mrs Michiko Deniz, a Japanese mother, struggled for days to get parental rights on her daughter from her Turkish partner in Turkey, but she has had to leave the country alone.
Mrs Deniz claims that Mr Deniz, who is still formally her husband, does not let her daughter, Kader, see her, and she has been seeking for help to take Kader to Japan with her. She has left the daughter behind for now, but she promises her daughter “to come and get her sooner or later”. Mrs Deniz is planning to try every legal ways including the European Court of Human Rights to have parental rights on Kader and take her to Japan.
A search for “Michiko Deniz” turns up numerous hits, but they all seem to be in Turkish so far.* This might be an interesting story to watch: if it gets picked up at all in Japan, expect to see any sympathetic coverage of Ms. Deniz get slammed as hypocritical in the light of foreign parents’ treatment when the tables are turned and the kid is with a Japanese parent. (See for instance this group and any number of stories like this one.) Do you suppose a trip home to Japan with mom would end with a happy return to dad’s house in Turkey soon afterward?
* EDIT: The second Google hit for her name is now this post. Fear the Google!
One Response to “A child custody story to watch?”
05/05/2009
That’s certainly an interesting find. The press release says conflates not getting parental rights with leaving the country alone. I wonder if that means they assume that if she had gotten parental rights, the father would have to give up his.
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