Kurnaz

Murat Kurnaz (born March 19, 1982 Bremen, Germany) is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who was wrongly held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at its military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba for five years. As a child of guest workers, under German law Kurnaz had to go through a process to gain citizenship after becoming 18, which he had in process when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. He was only 19 years old at that time.