From Sky Harbor to Bangui: How a Turkish man with U.S. torture protections ended up deported

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: July 20, 2026

Words: 1,221

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Yagiz Doruk Hallac had been granted special protections by an immigration judge in New York in 2023 and thought that, combined with his lack of criminal history, meant he could visit friends in Arizona in late February.

Four months later, the 24-year-old was on a 22-hour flight with 20 others who were being shipped to the Central African Republic, a country he had no connections to.

Hallac had been granted a United …

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