Yuksel Celik Gogus
Yuksel Celik Gogus is citizen of Turkey who was held in [[extrajudiciaal detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Internee security number is 291. He was released on March 2003.[2] He was held in Guantanamo for one year, nine months, and two days.[3] He was one of the first captives to be sent home.
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Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[4][5] Yuksel's assessment was date February 1, 2003, and was one page long.[3] His assessment recommended "Release or transfer to the control of another country."[6] According to Miller's assessment Yuksel had gone bankrupt, so he traveled to Afghanistan where he had read that the Taliban would give immigrants a free house and resettlement assistance. The assessment asserted Yuksel was not affiliated with the Taliban or al Qaeda.
Lawsuit
Yuksel was the lead complainant in Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld.[7] Celikgogus v Rumsfeld was initiated in November 21 2006 by Yuksel and IBrahim Sen. Zakirjan Hasam, and Abu Muhammad, two former Guantanamo captives, and Nuri Mert, another Turk who the US had held elsewhere, were added on March 21, 2007.
Claims he supported terrorism following his release
The Defense Intelligence Agency has claimed a large number of former Guantanamo captives are either confirmed or suspected of "supporting terrorism", following their release. However, the DIA only named a small number of those recidivists. Yuksel is one of those named. The DIA did not explain why they listed Yuksel as a recidivist, but they stated anti-American statements were not sufficient to be named a recidivist.
References
- ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
- ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Yuksel Celik Gogus". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/291-yuksel-celik-gogus. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Yuksel Celik Gogus, US9TU-000291DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks". Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477435/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Yuksel-Celik-Gogus-US9TU-000291DP.html. Retrieved 2012-09-05. "Recommendation: Release or transfer to the control of another country"
- ↑ Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake (2011-04-27). "WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fwikileaks%2F8471907%2FWikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html&date=2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-07-13. "The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website."
- ↑ "WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ Geoffrey D. Miller (2003-02-01). "Recommendation for Transfer out of DoD Control (TRO) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9AG". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/pdf/tu/us9tu-000291dp.pdf. Retrieved 2012-09-05. mirror
- ↑ "Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld & Allaithi v. Rumsfeld". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-09-06. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fccrjustice.org%2FAllaithi-v-Rumsfeld&date=2012-09-06. Retrieved 2012-09-06. "The plaintiffs in Celikgogus include Yuksel Celikgogus and Ibrahim Sen, two Turkish citizens who were released from Guantánamo in 2004; Turkish citizen Nuri Mert; Uzbekistan citizen Zakirjan Hasam; and Algerian citizen Abu Muhammad. Hasam and Muhammad, both refugees sent by the U.S. against their will to Albania, were determined to be non-enemy combatants at their Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT's) in late 2004, yet were not released until two years later. Celikgogus and Sen were released without charge before the creation of the CSRT process."
