Reza is booked onto Flight TK1986 in ONE HOUR for Immediate Deportation! We are asking you to URGENTLY contact Turkish Airlines asking them to refuse to allow Reza to board Flight TK1986 • Via Email: BEksil@thy.com.tr ; infolondon@thy.com; press@thy.com; customer@thy.com • Via calling Turkish Airlines: 020 7471 6666 You can ‘Cut and Paste’ the template below for ease: _____________ Dear Dr Bilal Eksi, Re: Reza Maghsoudi - Nationality: Afghanistan - HO Ref: M1304028/8 – DOB: 22/12/1990 I am writing to ask you not to allow Reza Maghsoudi to board Turkish Airlines Flight Tk1986, which leaves at 16:25 GMT today, and be deported from London Heathrow via Istanbul to Afghanistan. Reza is a shy young man, who at the age of 13 escaped the War in Afghanistan, trekked across Iran, Turkey and through Europe to England; where he arrived alone and with nothing but a handful of photographs. Reza has built a family of friends (including the support of ≈80,000 signatories on a Petition at Change.org; see https://www.change.org/p/home-office-stop-deportation-of-reza-to-afghanistan) here in the UK, but is now being forcibly removed and sent back to Afghanistan; a country he no longer remembers. Reza was born in 1990 in Afghanistan, close to the border with Iran. His family were of the Hazara ethnic group - a group that has been systematically oppressed and massacred by the Taliban. From this place of persecution and murder Reza escaped alone for the hope of freedom and life in England. Despite having no family to return to in Afghanistan, and despite having been in the UK since he was a child, and despite being a Hazara Shia Muslim at risk of murder by the Taliban, the British Home Office is deporting him.. Due to the hard work of his friends, new solicitors, MPs who have taken up his cause, and signees of this petition, Reza’s deportation flight on Saturday 4th November, was cancelled in lieu of a Judicial Review. He is still at risk and we really need your help, so please keep up the pressure and spread the petition among your family and friends. As Chief Executive Office of Turkish Airlines, I am urging you not to be complicit in the Home Office's attempt to forcibly remove Reza Maghsoudi from the UK. Yours sincerely, (A friend of Reza) _____________ MANY THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT - PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW • Via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/turkishairlines • Via Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/turkishairlines