Country of origin information report Turkey December 2007
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ICRC International Committee for Red Cross IDP Internally Displaced Person IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IMF International Monetary Fund IOM International Organisation for Migration MSF Médecins sans Frontières NGO Non Governmental Organisation OCHA Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ODIHR Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ODPR Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees OECD Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development OHCHR Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe RSF Reporteurs sans Frontières STD Sexually Transmitted Disease STC Save the Children TB Tuberculosis TI Transparency International UN United Nations UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNHCHR United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime USAID United States Agency for International Development USSD United States State Department WFP World Food Programme WHO World Health Organization Return to contents Go to list of sources Annex G: References to source material The Home Office is not responsible for the content of external websites. Numbering of source documents is not always consecutive because some older sources have been removed in the course of updating this document. (If applicable) [1] Europa Publications a “Regional Surveys of the World: The Middle East and North Africa 2005” b Europa World online, Turkey http://www.europaworld.com
a “Official general report on Turkey” (January 2002) http://register.consilium.eu.int/pdf/en/02/st07/07838en2.pdf (accessed 16 February 2006) b “Turkey/military service” (July 2001) http://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/ms59_neth-tur0701.pdf (accessed 13 December 2006) c Official general report on Turkey (p102-103) (January 2003) d “Turkey/military service” (July 2002)(translated extract on forfeiture of citizenship)
Progress on national IDP policy paves way for further reforms 26 July 2007 http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/6E19F044774E3362C1257324002C514E/$file/Turkey_Overview_July07.pdf (accessed 10 October 2007) [4] Foreign and Commonwealth Office a Letter 2 July 2007(Amendments to the law on Village Guards) b Letter 11 April 2002 c Correspondence dated 5 February 2007. d Letter 22 April 2005 e Letter 22 July 2005 f Fax 11 October 2005 g Letter 14 September 2005 h Human Rights Annual Report 2005: July 2005 http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1119526503628 (accessed 5 November 2005) i Letter 28 September 2005 j Travel Advice by Country – Turkey updated 11 September 2007
k Letter 6 April 2006 (Request for additional information) l Letter 6 April 2006 (HRA 2005 figures) m Letter 11 April 2006 n Human Rights Annual Report 2006: October 2006 http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/03%20OVERVIEW.5.pdf o Letter 8 January 2007 (Request for additional information) p Letter 17 April 2007 (Request for additional information) q Letter 27 March 2007 (Request for additional information) r Letter 27 March 2007 (Request for additional information) s Country Profile 3 August 2007 http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019745009611 (Accessed 27 September 2007) t Letter 27 March 2007 (Request for Hearing Impaired) [5] U.S. Department of State http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls a Country Reports on Terrorism - released April 30, 2007 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82732.htm (accessed 2 May 2007) b Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey 2005, (8 March 2006) http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm (accessed 11 July 2006) c Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey 2004, (28 February 2005) http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41713.htm (accessed 11 July 2006) d Trafficking in Persons Report: 12 June 2007 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/82807.htm (accessed 26 August 2007) e Report on International Religious Freedom 2007, (14 September 2007) http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90204.htm (accessed 29 September 2007) f Consular Information Sheet– current as of today, May 14 2007. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1046.html (accessed 2 May 2007) g Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey 2006, (6 March 2007) http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78844.htm (accessed 12 March 2007) [6] Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) a 2004 Legal Review http://www.khrp.org/publish/p2004/Legal%20Review%205%20ISSN.pdf b Human rights Defenders in Turkey September 2006 http://www.barhumanrights.org.uk/pdfs/06publicationswithKHRP/HRDsTurkey.pdf (acceseed on 3 January 2007) c Human Rights Violations Against Kurds in Turkey-4 October 2006 http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2006/10/21026_en.pdf (acceseed on 3 January 2007) d Refusing Refuge: Investigation the Treatment of Refugees in Turkey February 2007 http://www.khrp.org/publish/p2007/Refusing%20Refuge%20ONLINE.pdf (accessed 22 May 2007) [7] Documentation, Information and Research Branch, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa, Canada. www.irb-cisr.gc.ca a Turkey: Forced marriage in Turkey; outcome when a woman refuses to marry the designated man; outcome when a woman elopes with another man; attitude of state and availability of state protection (July 2001 -September 2004) http://www.cisr-irb.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=444461 (Accessed 10 September 2007) b Turkey: Status of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish Hezbollah; situation and treatment of members, supporters and sympathizers of these parties (2006 - 2007) http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=451309 (accessed 25 September 2007) c Turkey: Situation and treatment of members, supporters and sympathizers of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) (2006 - 2007) http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=451310 (accessed 25 September 2007) d Turkey: Procedures that must be followed by, and documents that must be provided to Turkish airport and land border authorities to allow a Turkish citizen and/or foreign national entry into and exit out of Turkey (July 2003) (accessed 4 October 2005) e Turkey: Whether the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) and the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) issue membership certificates to members residing within Turkey and/or abroad. (TUR43475.E 28 April 2005) http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=444432
f Turkey: The situation and treatment of members, supporters and sympathizers of leftist parties, particularly the People's Democratic Party (HADEP) and Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) (January 2003 - September 2004) http://www.cisr-irb.gc.ca/fr/recherche/rdi/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=444479 (accessed 29 October 2007) g Turkey: Conditions in military prisons (2003) http://www.irb- cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=444540 (accessed 30 October 2007) [8] The Swiss Organisation for Refugees, ‘Turkey – The current situation’ p40-42 (June 2003) [9] Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org a Turkey: Displaced Villagers Denied Fair Compensation http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12/20/turkey14875_txt.htm (accessed 26 January 2007) b World Report 2007 Turkey (11 January 2007) http://www.hrw.org/wr2k7/wr2007master.pdf (accessed 18 January 2007) c March 6, 2006 Turkey report: To Combat Torture, Monitoring Police Stations Is Key http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/06/turkey12756.htm (accessed 17 July 2006) To access the original report via http://hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/turkey0306/turkey0306.pdf d “Turkey: Letter to Minister Aksu calling for the abolition of the village guards” June 2006 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/08/turkey13578.htm (accessed 12 September 2006) e Human Rights overview of Turkey 2005 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/turkey12220.htm (accessed 18 September 2006) f End Legal Action Against Gay Rights Group October 2007 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/10/16/turkey17107.htm (accessed 30 0ctober 2007) [10] International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights a Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2005 (Events of 2005): Turkey (8 June 2006) http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?download=1&doc_id=6866 (accessed 13 December 2006) b Turkey IHF FOCUS: elections 2004 http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=3485 (accessed 3 January 2007) c Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2007 (Events of 2006) Turkey (27 March 2007) http://www.ihf-hr.org/documents/doc_summary.php?sec_id=3&d_id=4387 (accessed 4 June 2007) d ROMA IN THE OSCE REGION IN 2006 ( March 2007) http://www.ihf-hr.org/documents/doc_summary.php?sec_id=3&d_id=4387 (accessed 29 October 2007) [11] Reporters sans frontières - www.reporteres-sans-frontieres.org a – Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025 (accessed 23 October 2007) b Turkey– Freedom of the Press Annual report 2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20827&Valider=OK (accessed 21 February 2007) [12] Amnesty International http://web.amnesty.org a No impunity for state officials who violate human rights-May 2006 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440062006?open&of=ENG- TUR (accessd 13 December 2006) b Stop Violence Against Women “Turkey: Shelters Not Cemeteries” http://www.amnesty.ca/amnestynews/upload/turkeyappeal1.pdf (accessed 26 September 2006) c Turkey Justice Delayed and Denied 6 September 2006 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440132006?open&of=ENG- TUR (accessed 13 December 2006) d Turkey: Shelters need government support http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/tur-251106-shelteraction-eng (accessed 4 January 2006) e Amnesty International Annual Report 2007 – covering evenys from January to December 2006 http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Europe-and-Central-Asia/Turkey (accessed 22 May 2007) f Turkey: Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan is a Prisoner of Conscience and must be released now!: 9 December 2005 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440362005?open&of=ENG-TUR (accessed 9 December 2005) g Turkey: Implementation of reforms is the key!: 11 March 2005 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440102005?open&of=ENG-TUR (accessed 2 September 2005) h List of Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries – 1 January 2006
i Turkey Memorandum on AI’s recommendations to the government to address human rights violations (1 August 2005) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440272005?open&of=ENG-TUR (accessed 30 August 2005) j Turkey: Women confronting family violence (2 June 2004) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440132004?open&of=ENG-TUR (accessed 2 June 2004) k Turkey: End sexual violence against women in custody! - 26 February 2003 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR440112003 (accessed 6 September 2007 l Europe and Central Asia Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns in the Region January – June 2004 (1 September 2004) http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engEUR010052004 (accessed 11 July 2006) m No turning back – full implementation of women’s human rights now! 10 year review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1 February 2005) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGIOR410022005 (accessed 25 February 2005) [13] Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment a Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 7 to 14 December 2005 (6 September 2006) http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/tur/2006-09-06-eng.htm (accessed 6 September 2006) [14] OSCE/ODIHR Assessment Report, Republic of Turkey Parliamentary elections 3 November 2002 (December 2002) a Republic of Turkey Parliamentary Elections 3 November 2002 OSCE/ODIHR assessment report
a Turkish Army http://www.allaboutturkey.com/army.htm (accessed 13 December 2006) [16] Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre “LANDINFO” (Utlendingsforvaltningens fagenhet for landinformasjon). Report of fact-finding mission to Turkey (7-17 October 2004)’ made public in February 2005 (not accessible online) [17] Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Interior, Turkish National Police, Department of Anti-smuggling and Organised Crime. Report on GBTS system (September 2003) [18] Republic of Turkey, Turkish Embassy Washington DC http://www.turkishembassy.org/index.php http://www.turkishembassy.org/governmentpolitics/politicsjdccourt.htm (Date accessed 17 February 2005) (now only accessible through) http://web.archive.org/web/20040419031754/http://www.turkishembassy.org/governmentpolitics/politicsjdccourt.htm [19] Focus Migration Country Profile – Turkey April 2006 http://www.migration-research.org/dokumente/focus-migration/CP_05_Turkey.pdf (accessed 9 February 2007) [20] UNHCR Directorate for Movements of Persons, Migration and Consular Affairs Official general report on Turkey 2001 http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/3c16212e2.pdf (accessed 9 October 2007) [21] Military Act No. 1111, as amended [22] PUB MED - Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Turkey - 2001. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11463011&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google (accessed 28 September 2007) [23] “Turkish Daily News” http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/ a Three terrorists killed in Van: 23 September 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=24123 (accessed 23 September 2005) b Turbulence in the Southeast persists: 27 September 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=24390 (accessed 27 September 2005) c Five soldiers killed in PKK attacks: 12 September 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=23116 (accessed 12 September 2005) d Appeals court calls for Eğitim-Sen’s closure: 26 May 2005 “http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=14204” http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=14204 (accessed 26 May 2005) e Prime Ministry hosting summit on violence against women: 8 September 2006 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=53416 (accessed 28 September 2006) f Government seeking changes to Article 301- October 3, 2007
g Penal code comes into force: 1 June 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=14692 (accessed 2 June 2005) h DEHAP dissolves: 21 November 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=36560 (accessed 24 February 2006) i Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ's biography 26 January 2007 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=64817 (accessed 9 February 2007) j Alevis issue an ultimatum: 22 June 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=16413 (accessed 22 June 2005) k Minister: 65 terrorists killed until May: 9 July 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=17897 (accessed 12 July 2005) l Turkey charged in complaint by conscientious objector: 25 January 2006 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=34039 (accessed 25 January 2006) m Lawyers call record imprisonment for conscientious objector ‘intimidation’: 13 August 2005 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=20643 (accessed 8 October 2005) n Turkish woman's election to gender equality chair 'meaningful' 26 January 2007 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=64756 Yüklə 1,73 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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