Date: 17 February 2009
The applicant, Ümit Onur, is a Turkish national who was born in 1978. He arrived in the United Kingdom in 1989 but he was deported to Turkey in July 2007 following a conviction for robbery. Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), Mr Onur complained about his deportation. The Court accepted that the applicant’s deportation interfered with his right to a private and family life but held unanimously that there had been no violation of Article 8, because, inter alia, Mr Onur, his current partner and their very young children could have all settled in Turkey without exceptional difficulties.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)
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