Republic of Türkiye

• Country News 277
• Country Reports 2

• Abduction 67
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Africans 3
• Ahmadis 4
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 4
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 9
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 64
• Armed attacks on camps 19
• Armed forces / Military 131
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 189
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 2
• Border conflict 38
• Border controls 4
• Border crossers 6
• Buddhist 18
• Catholic 2
• Ceasefire 89
• Chechen 12
• Child soldiers 15
• Children's rights 10
• Children-at-risk 24
• Christian 65
• Civil and political rights 3
• Civil war 38
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 4
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 42
• Conflict resolution 10
• Conflict situation 19
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Copts 6
• Corruption 37
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 22
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 8
• Criminal justice 2
• Death penalty 81
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 8
• Deportation / Forcible return 15
• Disappeared persons 11
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 20
• Domestic violence 13
• Drug trafficking 7
• Effective remedy 2
• Election law 2
• Elections 195
• Embargo 1
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 2
• Exiles 2
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 28
• Extreme poverty 2
• Falun Gong 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
• Forced labour 2
• Forced marriage 13
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 10
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 122
• Freedom of expression 116
• Freedom of information 85
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 31
• Freedom of speech 36
• Fulani 9
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 4
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 18
• HIV and AIDS 4
• Han 3
• Harmful traditional practices 4
• Hindu 9
• Honour killings 14
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
• Human rights activists 66
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 18
• Humanitarian assistance 25
• IDP camps 8
• Immigrants 5
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Indigenous persons 4
• Internal armed conflict 154
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 33
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 12
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 80
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 10
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 58
• Maronite 2
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 27
• Military courts 7
• Military law 1
• Military operations 92
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 11
• Muslim 109
• National security / Public order 4
• Nepalis 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 7
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 75
• Palestinian 42
• Passports 5
• Peace agreements 61
• Peace process 25
• Peacekeeping 60
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 8
• Persecution based on political opinion 95
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 42
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 79
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 74
• Political situation 233
• Polygamy 2
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 7
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 40
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 130
• Public health 13
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reconciliation 6
• Referendum 28
• Refugee camps 33
• Refugee seamen 2
• Refugees 98
• Religious discrimination 22
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 40
• Returnees 2
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 10
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 14
• Roma 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• Safe country of origin 14
• Salafi 4
• Sanctions 5
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 102
• Security situation 256
• Serb 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 12
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Shia 59
• Sindhis 2
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 2
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 32
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 35
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 7
• Tatars 4
• Terrorism 249
• Tibetan 18
• Tiv 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 4
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Tuareg 6
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 41
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Visas 10
• Voluntary repatriation 8
• War crimes 22
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 17
• Women-at-risk 19
• Yazīdī 12

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• Amnesty International - Turkey
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• EurasiaNet - Turkey
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Turkey
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Turkey
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Turkey
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC mission in Ankara
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Turkey
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Turkey
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Turkey
• ReliefWeb - Turkey
• UNHCR - Turkey
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Turkey
• United States Department of State - Turkey
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Turkey