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Title: Selling desperate Syrian refugees’ body parts for profit: Israeli man arrested in Turkey for organ trafficking
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URL Source: http://www.salon.com/2015/12/05/sel ... _turkey_for_organ_trafficking/
Published: Dec 6, 2015
Author: BEN NORTON
Post Date: 2015-12-06 16:03:18 by Ada
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Views: 138
Comments: 10
Trafficking is on the rise in largest refugee crisis since WWII. Struggling Syrians have resorted to selling organs Selling desperate Syrian refugees' body parts for profit: Israeli man arrested in Turkey for organ trafficking (Credit: Reuters/Laszlo Balogh) The situation in Syria today is nothing short of catastrophic. More than half of the entire population has been displaced in a civil war now approaching its fifth year, and almost 4.3 million Syrian refugees are registered with the U.N. Millions are crowded into densely population refugee camps in neighboring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Many live on the street, and few have access to basic resources or job prospects. Traffickers have taken advantage of Syrian refugees’ desperation, in hopes of making money. An Israeli man was arrested in Turkey today for organ trafficking. He came to Istanbul to try to convince impoverished Syrian refugees to sell their organs, in a story first reported by Turkey’s Do an News Agency, and later by Israel’s YNet and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. According to Turkish and Israeli media, he was making plans to perform illegal surgeries on struggling Syrian refugees in small Turkish hospitals. The alleged trafficker was identified in the Turkish media as Boris Walker, but YNet reports that the man is likely Boris Wolfman, a wanted criminal who fled Israel after being indicted for organ trafficking. Wolfman was wanted by Interpol, the international police organization, for past organ trafficking. Patients illegally receiving an organ had to pay between €70,000 and €100,000, according to the indictment, whereas refugee organ donors received just tens of thousands of euros, resulting in tens of thousands of euros in profit for each transplant. Previously, Wolfman was charged with organ trafficking and organizing illegal transplants in Kosovo, Azerbaijan, and Sri Lanka, in a series of alleged offenses committed between 2008 and 2014. The organ trafficker had put ads in Russian newspapers to attract potential donors. YNet reported that Wolfman “did not explain to the donors about the physical and mental risks they face, denying them of the information they needed to make the decision.” In Kosovo, organ donors were allegedly released without any medical supervision, explanation about needed medical treatments, or critical health advice. At least one teenage boy, who had his kidney removed, was paralyzed after not receiving proper treatment. A Turkish court ruled Wolfman will be extradited back to Israel after a 40-day arrest period. The black market for organs has been flourishing in the Middle East in the past few years, with the influx of millions of refugees. In 2013, Lebanese smugglers told Der Spiegel that, because of the desperation in which many refugees live, there are “more sellers than buyers.” The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N. refugee agency, has been overwhelmed by the worst refugee crisis the world has seen since World War II. It drastically lacks the funds it needs to adequately address the needs of millions of refugees. The UNHCR is in such great need of funding that it, with the White House, resorted to creating a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money. With 60 million people driven from their homes, trafficking and enslavement are on the rise, the U.N. warned this week. Many refugees have lost everything, and have given smugglers their life savings and even sacrificed their lives in dangerous voyages in hopes of seeking asylum in a European continent that has been largely hostile to their arrival. Ben Norton is a politics staff writer at Salon. You can find him on Twitter at @BenjaminNorton.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
A Turkish court ruled Wolfman will be extradited back to Israel after a 40-day arrest period. And what will the Israelis do with this man? NOTHING! They will release him. :-/ "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Probably not breaking any law.
Ha! Not in Israel, that's for sure. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It is illegal in the US but I'm not sure of the law that makes it so. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I read that article. It rivals any of the corruption in Chicago, and that was a crooked town, with wind bag politicians. That is why it was called, The Windy City. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Turtle would sell his organ if only he could find a woman desparate enough to pay for it.
There was one Hassidic Jew who was arrested back in 2009 for trafficking organs for transplant.
Some people work hard at being offended
I'm not sure when organ trafficking becomes illegal. You can give your kidney and that's altruistic. Can you sell it?
Hell no, not acceptable. Can you imagine a mother selling a kidney to put food on the table? Here, you cannot even sell blood. Some people work hard at being offended
I think selling blood is still legal although its not always accepted due to sanitary concerns. Giving/selling blood does not hurt but there is some danger in giving/selling a kidney.
Israeli man arrested in Turkey for organ trafficking
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
#3. To: Ada (#2)
Probably not breaking any law.
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
#5. To: Ada (#4)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
#6. To: Whatever (#0)
#7. To: Ada (#0)
#8. To: SilverStorm (#7)
#9. To: Ada (#8)
Can you sell it?
#10. To: SilverStorm (#9)
Here, you cannot even sell blood.
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