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• Abduction 81
• Abkhazians 3
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• Christian 73
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• Confidentiality 1
• Conflict resolution 23
• Conflict situation 38
• Constitutional law 1
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• Corruption 44
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 118
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• Criminal justice 33
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• Death squads 1
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• Democracy 12
• Deportation / Forcible return 48
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 23
• Domestic violence 19
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• Economic, social and cultural rights 4
• Effective protection 3
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• Extradition 18
• Extrajudicial executions 49
• Extreme poverty 3
• False documents 1
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 4
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
• Flight by land, air or sea 7
• Forced labour 2
• Forced marriage 14
• Forced relocation 1
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Foreign occupation 12
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 47
• Freedom of assembly and association 202
• Freedom of conscience 7
• Freedom of expression 691
• Freedom of information 468
• Freedom of movement 11
• Freedom of religion 94
• Freedom of speech 320
• Fulani 9
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 7
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 5
• Genocide 27
• Good governance 29
• Good offices 1
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Han 3
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• Hijacking 1
• Hindu 9
• Honour killings 16
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 13
• Human Rights Council 7
• Human rights activists 109
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 46
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 8
• Human rights monitors 30
• Humanitarian assistance 75
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
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• Immigrants 6
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• Immunity 5
• Impunity 25
• Independence of judiciary 27
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 180
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 59
• International armed conflict 7
• International courts and tribunals 13
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
• International protection 8
• Jehovah's Witness 3
• Jew 3
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Kachin 4
• Kosovar 5
• Kurd 299
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 11
• Laws relating to religion 5
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 78
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• Maronite 2
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• Migrants 130
• Military courts 10
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• Military operations 179
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• Minority rights 3
• Muslim 133
• National security / Public order 7
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• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 123
• Orthodox Christian 7
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• Peace agreements 66
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• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 40
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• Police 139
• Political asylum 1
• Political groups 20
• Political parties 119
• Political situation 334
• Polygamy 2
• Pre-trial detention 26
• Prevention of discrimination 2
• Prison or detention conditions 17
• Property restitution 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 53
• Protestant 4
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 211
• Public health 14
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
• Reception 20
• Reconciliation 12
• Referendum 41
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 53
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee seamen 10
• Refugees 337
• Registration 8
• Rejected asylum-seekers 4
• Rejection at border 12
• Religious discrimination 34
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 40
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 5
• Resettlement 11
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• Returnees 4
• Right to a nationality 1
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• Right to justice 3
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• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 8
• Right to self-determination 5
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• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 50
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• Salafi 4
• Sanctions 6
• Secondary movement 7
• Security forces 124
• Security situation 312
• Serb 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 23
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Shia 61
• Sindhis 2
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 13
• Social group discrimination 3
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 3
• State of emergency 65
• State protection 3
• Statelessness 2
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 39
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tajik 3
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• Tatars 9
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 367
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Tibetan 18
• Tiv 2
• Torture 15
• Trafficking in persons 17
• Transit 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
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• Turkmen 6
• Turks 2
• Uighur 51
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
• Urban refugees 2
• Uzbek 1
• Visas 15
• Voluntary repatriation 9
• War crimes 22
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 37
• Women-at-risk 22
• Work permits 1
• Yazīdī 13

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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