Türkiye

Reports, comments and letters

  Year: 2025


 CONF/AG(2025)DECL2 - Statement calling for the immediate release of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul - approved by the Conference of INGOs at the General Assembly on 9 April 2025

 Letter to the Permanent Representative of Türkiye to the Council of Europe concernign the court ruling that dissolved the  Young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Youth Studies and Solidarity Association (Young LGBTI+ Association) in Izmir (17 December 2025) - In English 

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President of the Conference of INGOs condemns recent actions targeting LGBTI persons in Türkiye

22 September 2026 Strasbourg

The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) of the Council of Europe is deeply concerned by reports of coordinated raids, detentions and restrictions targeting LGBTI organisations, activists and human rights defenders in Türkiye during the weekend of 12–13 September....

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CINGO President and Expert Council react to dissolution of Young LGBTI+ Association in Türkiye

17 December 2025 Strasbourg

In a letter dated 17 December to the Permanent Representative of Türkiye to the Council of Europe, the President of the Conference of INGOs and the President of its Expert Council on NGO Law react to the recent court ruling that dissolved the Young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex...

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CINGO President at the Council of Europe calls for the immediate release of the Congress youth delegate arrested in Türkiye

8 August 2025 Strasbourg, France

We are deeply concerned by the arrest on 4 August 2025 at the Ankara airport, of Enes Hocaoğulları, a human rights activist and a youth delegate to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. It is especially disturbing that legal actions are being taken against a...

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