Turkish journalist seeks asylum in Albania, risks deportation to Turkey

 Passport of Emre Olur

 A Turkish citizen has requested asylum in Albania as he claims that his life is in danger in his country.

Ahmet Emre Olur is a journalist and was detained in Rinas, Euronews reports.

According to his lawyer Arben Llangozi, the Albanian authorities want to deport him to his homeland without legal procedure.

"To handle the request for Political Asylum in the Albanian state, for the reason that deportation from Albania could seriously endanger my life and at the same time, I could be discriminated against due to political beliefs in the country of origin. Applicant: Ahmet Emre Olur, Represented by lawyers: Arben Llangozi, Orgesa Serani", says the filed request for political asylum.

Sedat Peker and Ahmet Emre Olur, source

Emre Olur was born in 1996 in Bahçelievler, Istanbul. 

Left-wing Albanian media say without citing sources that "Olur is known as the 'press consultant' of the head of organized crime, Sedat Peker. The latter had a channel on YouTube, which last year, through videos, published facts that proved the connection between politics and the mafia. With the escape of Sedat Peker abroad, Olur came to the fore again, after it was realized that some of the responses on social networks in the name of the organized leader came from him.

Peker is said to have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates and after that it is thought that Olur also left seeking asylum in Albania.