Advocacy for Türkiye

What is Happening?

Türkiye hosts the world’s largest refugee population, with over 3.6 million Syrian refugees and 400,000 refugees from other countries. While Türkiye has provided critical refuge, many asylum seekers face widespread human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, deportation, and physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile, the fall of the Assad government has led to the return of some Syrian refugees from Türkiye, but conditions in Syria remain unsafe for large-scale returns. Despite this, Türkiye maintains pressure on Syrian refugees, forcibly returning many to areas under its control in northern Syria, where humanitarian conditions are dire.

What Must Be Done?

Refugees International is advocating for the rights of refugees in Türkiye, including protection from forced return, as well as for enhanced cross-border humanitarian aid from Türkiye into northwest Syria.

Issue Brief

Collapsed Buildings, Crushing Politics: Refugees International Calls for Immediate Humanitarian Pause and Unfettered Aid Access in Northwest Syria

Report

Displacement and Despair: The Turkish Invasion of Northeast Syria

Report

Insecure Future: Deportations and Lack of Legal Work for Refugees in Turkey

Statement

U.S. Travel Ban Is Inhumane and Discriminatory 

Statement

Refugees International Calls on Congress to Reject Rescissions Package

Statement

Refugees International Condemns SCOTUS Rulings That Strip Hundreds of Thousands of People of Humanitarian Status, Exposing Them to Detention and Deportation to Danger

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Advocacy Letter

Letter Urging Action to Find Missing Yazidi Women and Children

Advocacy Letter

40 NGOs Denounce Greece’s New Law Designating Turkey as a Safe Third Country

Testimony

At What Cost? The Human Toll of Turkey‘s Policy at Home and Abroad

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Featured Image: Afghan asylum seekers living in Türkiye. © Refugees International