To justify its military operations in Syria, Turkey has referred to self-defense and counterterrorism, and vaguely invoked humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect civilians. In Libya, however, Turkey invoked UN resolutions and bilateral security agreements for its operations.

As its troop deployments in Syria and Libya are constituting an intervention into domestic jurisdiction, Turkey needed to show that it is complying with the international laws as well as setting out the rationale for its military operations in those countries.

Dışişleri Bakanlığı personel sayısı bakımından en büyük kurumlar arasında değil. Dolayısıyla OHAL döneminde buradan ihraç edilen memurlara dair istatistikler, Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı veya Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü gibi kurumlardaki kadar dikkat çekmedi. Ancak oransal açıdan bakıldığında, bu kurumda yürütülen tasfiye diğer kurumlardan geri kalmadı.

9 Şubat 2019 tarihli Dışişleri Bakanlığı açıklamasında Doğu Türkistan'daki Uygurların maruz kaldıkları baskılar konusunda Çin yönetimine ağır eleştiriler getiriliyordu. Açıklamanın başlangıcında, insan hakkı ihallalerinin son iki yılda ağırlaştığı vurgulanıyor, Çin yönetimi, Uygurların ve diğer Müslüman toplulukların etnik, dini ve kültürel kimliklerinin tasfiye etmekle suçlanıyordu.

'A gift from God' was one of Erdoğan's first descriptions related to coup attempt in July 15. At first no one realized that God's gift meant a chaotic environment in which he needed to declare a national emergency with no checks and balances and then transform Türkiye’s parliamentary democracy into an executive presidency.

This submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) highlights severe issues undermining the integrity of Türkiye's judiciary, particularly focusing on rampant judicial corruption and impunity as well as human rights abuses which they facilitate. Based on the most recent incidents of corruption concerning members of the judiciary who serve in courts in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara, this report seeks to examine the high-level corruption within the judiciary and the Turkish government’s failure or even willful ignorance in addressing it.

This report focuses on Turkey's prominence as an emerging market for cocaine trafficking and organized crime in the last decade. Cocaine production in Latin America has dramatically increased since 2013, and Turkey’s status as an emerging market has attracted the attention of Latin American government officials on the front lines of the cocaine trade.

This report sets out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the tactics employed by the Erdoğan administration to achieve repressive goals abroad and the vulnerabilities and how they are enabled by the AML and CFT regulation in place.

This submission highlights the ongoing systematic actions and omissions by Turkish authorities against the so-called members of the Gulen Group, framed as crimes against humanity. It demonstrates the violations of recommendations that even Türkiye has supported.

This report offers an update to the United Nations Committee against Torture (the Committee) regarding the obstacles to implementing the Convention against Torture (the Convention) in Turkey. As a coalition formed by a collective of former Turkish diplomats, our focus is on the systematic torture faced by former diplomats detained at Ankara Police Headquarters. We delve into the Turkish context and present insights from our organization.