It was painstaking for Mustafa and Melek Topcu to leave their two daughters behind when they fled political persecution in Turkey for protection in Canada in 2017.

A critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime, Mustafa Topcu said he was arrested in 2016 and detained for six months, accused of being part of the Gülen opposition movement, which was labelled by the Turkish government as a terrorist group.
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