Guidance

Turkey: country policy and information notes

From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Part of:
Country policy and information notes
Published:
9 December 2016
Last updated:
4 August 2017, see all updates

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

Documents

Country policy and information note: Kurdish political parties, Turkey, August 2017

PDF, 479KB, 33 pages

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Country policy and information note: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey, August 2017

PDF, 400KB, 29 pages

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Country policy and information note: Alevis, Turkey, August 2017

PDF, 368KB, 26 pages

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Country policy and information note: human rights defenders, Turkey, June 2017

PDF, 618KB, 35 pages

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Country policy and information note: sexual orientation and gender identity, Turkey, June 2017

PDF, 398KB, 22 pages

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Country policy and information note: Gülenism, Turkey, April 2017

PDF, 784KB, 60 pages

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Country information and guidance: HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party), Turkey, March 2016

PDF, 391KB, 28 pages

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Country information and guidance: journalists, Turkey, March 2016

PDF, 425KB, 29 pages

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Country information and guidance: military service, Turkey, March 2016

PDF, 387KB, 22 pages

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Country information and guidance: background information, including actors of protection and internal relocation, Turkey, February 2016

PDF, 392KB, 30 pages

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Country information and guidance: Kurdish ethnicity, Turkey, February 2016

PDF, 361KB, 21 pages

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Country information and guidance: women fearing gender-based violence, Turkey, February 2016

PDF, 483KB, 46 pages

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Country information and guidance: prison conditions, Turkey, February 2016

PDF, 354KB, 23 pages

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Details

Country information and guidance reports are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

The reports also give information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin.

Document information

Published: 9 December 2016

Updated: 4 August 2017

+ full page history

  1. Updated information on the PKK, Kurdish political parties and Alevis.
  2. Updated guidance on 'human rights defenders' and 'sexual orientation and gender identity'.
  3. New guidance added on 'Gülenism'.
  4. First published.

From: UK Visas and Immigration

Part of: Country policy and information notes