Turkish-German lawyer gets death threats from neo-Nazis

BERLIN (AA) – A prominent Turkish-German lawmaker told local media Monday she has recently received death threats from neo-Nazis. </p> <p>Suspected far-right extremists threatened Seda Basay-Yildiz in a fax message signed NSU 2.0. The message also provided details about her family which were not publicly available, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported. </p> <p>Basay-Yildiz said it was the second death threat she received since August, when another fax-message threatened the murder of her 2-year-old daughter. </p> <p>She said detailed information on the message, which included her address and names of her family members, could be obtained only from official records.</p> <p>In December, five police officers in Frankfurt were suspended on suspicion they took personal information of Basay-Yildiz from police records and shared them with the far-right extremists. </p> <p>Basay-Yildiz represented the families of victims who were killed by the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terror cell, between 2000 and 2007. </p> <p>The shadowy NSU killed 10 people, including eight Turkish and one Greek immigrant as well as a police officer, but the murders have remained unresolved.</p> <p>