AL TUR 9:2025 Girls Case

    Joint UN Special Procedures communication concerning mass arrests, detention conditions, and the use of counter-terrorism laws against students, women, and minors allegedly linked to the Gülen (Hizmet) movement. The document examines allegations of arbitrary detention, procedural irregularities, and rights impacts on education, family life, and due process under international human rights law.


    Joint UN Special Procedures communication concerning mass arrests, detention conditions, and the use of counter-terrorism laws against students, women, and minors allegedly linked to the Gülen (Hizmet) movement. The document examines allegations of arbitrary detention, procedural irregularities, and rights impacts on education, family life, and due process under international human rights law.

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    UN SP Joint Statement 7 October 2024 AL TUR 5/2024

    it raises serious concerns about the misuse of counter-terrorism laws in Turkey, including mass arrests, arbitrary detention, transnational renditions, surveillance abuses, and violations of fundamental rights, and requests clarification and action from…

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    WGEID – Afganistan – 2018

    This joint UN Special Procedures urgent appeal concerns the arrest, secret detention, and subsequent house arrest of five teachers and a businessman in Afghanistan, allegedly at the request of Turkish authorities, and…

    2018International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    WGAD abot 43 Victims – 2020

    This joint UN Special Procedures allegation letter raises concerns about the arrest, prolonged detention, prosecution, and alleged ill-treatment of 43 Turkish nationals in the aftermath of the July 2016 coup attempt, many…

    2020International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    Pakistan – WGAD OPINION – Mesut:Meral Kacmaz (ENG) A_HRC_WGAD_2018_11

    In this opinion, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finds that the arrest, secret detention, and forcible deportation of Mesut Kaçmaz, Meral Kaçmaz, and their two minor children from Pakistan to…

    2018International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    Osman Karaca – SP Joint Comm AL KHM 7:2020 (December 11, 2020)

    This joint UN Special Procedures allegation letter raises concerns about the enforced disappearance of Thai political activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit in Cambodia and the arrest, short-term enforced disappearance, and deportation of Osman Karaca,…

    2020International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    Malaysia – Arif Komis – A_HRC_WGAD_2020_51_Advance_Edited_Version

    In this opinion, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes that the arrest, incommunicado detention, and forcible transfer of Arif Komiş, his wife Ülkü Komiş, and their four minor children from…

    2020International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    Letter of allegation Gabon

    This joint UN Special Procedures allegation letter raises concerns about the arbitrary arrest, incommunicado detention, and forcible deportation of three Turkish nationals and their families from Gabon to Turkey in April 2018,…

    2018International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    KOSOVO-Turkey – AHRC_WGAD_2020_47_Advance_Edited_Version

    In this opinion, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finds that the arrest, secret detention, and forcible transfer of six Turkish nationals from Kosovo to Turkey were carried out without legal…

    2020International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    AZERBAIJAN – WGAD Opinion A_HRC_WGAD_2019_10-Mustafa Ceyhan 2

    UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention examines the arrest, secret detention, abduction, and forcible transfer of Mustafa Ceyhan from Azerbaijan to Turkey, concluding that his deprivation of liberty was arbitrary under multiple…

    2019International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    AZERBAIJAN – SP Joint Statement on MehmetGelen -MustafaCeyhan (Azerbaijan)

    This joint UN Special Procedures allegation letter addresses the alleged abduction, enforced disappearance, detention, and forcible transfer of Mehmet Gelen and Mustafa Ceyhan from Azerbaijan to Turkey, raising concerns about arbitrary detention,…

    2019International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    ALBANIA – SP Joint Statement (UA ALB 1:2020)- Selami Simsek and Harun Celik

    This joint UN Special Procedures urgent appeal concerns the detention and alleged imminent deportation of Selami Şimşek from Albania to Turkey, alongside the prior expulsion of Harun Çelik, raising concerns of arbitrary…

    2020International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
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    AFGHANISTAN – SP JOINT STATEMENT on the Case of Turkish Citizens (UA AFG 1:2018)

    Joint urgent appeal addresses the arrest, incommunicado detention, house arrest, and risk of deportation of several Turkish nationals and one Afghan national in Kabul in December 2017. It details allegations of arbitrary…

    2018International BodiesUnited Nations Human Rights CouncilUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)