Dear Friends,

My case goes as follows: I am a foreign woman who was in a relation with turkish man for more than 6 years. We were together for a short period of 4 months in the year 2001, then we separated since he was married with a kid. We haven't seen each other for more than 3 years then we met suddenly. During this period we kept in touch through emails and phone calls sometimes. When we met in the end of year 2004 we realised I haven't got over him, neither haven't he. We reunited after 8 months since I had strong doubts and objections regarding the previous bad experience. One month after we reunited the second time he announced to me that his wife is pregnant with second kid. Though according him , he didn't want this pregnancy, the baby was born. I wanted to break the relation but my love was stronger than any logic, plus he encouraged me by promising me a future starting with moving himself to separate apartment. He separated with his wife and moved to another place where we started to live partly together. He assured me he will divorce and I started to arrange my life according the new conditions. Moreover I felt responsibility after he moved to the new place alone. However one year and a half after that he left the house without informing me, just packed my things in a bag, some other throw away. I went there in middle of August 2007 finding myself in the stress situation, without complete information, he said to me he will sleep at kids' place and he will come in the morning. A little while after he left the home, his wife called and started to threat me and ask me to go away and etc. The next day I moved to hotel staying until the day my flight was scheduled. After this case I stopped talking totally to him ending this fiasko by sending email to his wife in responce to her attacks saying to her this place was my home for year and a half and sending mail to him by accusing him in disloyalty and giving clear signs for end of the story. After that he sent me mail saying to cut all with him... Anyways, I didn't intend to continue anything. Recently I found out that he did some damages on a business matter to me using the confidential information. My question is: can I apply for any kind of compenssation after all. Probably many people will accuse me, but I loved him and I believed we have a future after his promises and kids were more than welcome. The point is that he damaged intentionally or not my emotional and financial stability. I run my own business which went down during the period I was not in my country. He didn't support me financially except home expenses in Turkey. Which is worse probably for revenge he wants to destroy what I did /we did together/ to build during the period I was there in business plan. Again my question is: according the turkish and human law do I have a right for compensation and what are the legal steps for it? Any suggestions, critics, opinions are welcome. Also I would like to get in contact with english speaking attorney. Thank you. Alicia