BLACKSITESTURKEY

We're meeting him at a café for the first time, on the edge of a large square in a city centre. A black Volkswagen van drives into sight. Tolga is pointing to it. "I'm afraid of these vehicles," he says. It's a little over a year now since he was released from detention... In a near-repeat of the CIA's ‘extraordinary renditions', the regime of Turkish president Erdoğan is kidnapping dozens of members of the Gülen movement from around the world.

Primary location: Essen Germany