RRT and American partner organization Refugee Solidarity Network (RSN) launch 4 new animation videos for refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey. The new videos, made available in Turkish, English, Arabic and Farsi, cover housing and property rights, marriage and divorce, state-funded legal aid services administered by bar associations and RRT’s own specialized legal assistance services.

Our new information videos for refugees are online !

RRT launches a new policy paper offering an assessment and recommendations on the current interpretation and implementation of the LFIP’s Article 7 governing the “implicit withdrawal of asylum applications”.

On 17 December 2018, RRT in partnership with ICJ, ECRE and Mülteci-Der, organized a stakeholder workshop on legal expertise development needs in Turkey in the field of asylum and immigration law and recent and current efforts to help address those needs.

On 16 December 2018, RRT in partnership with ICJ, ECRE and Mülteci-Der, organized a nation-wide workshop on the use and potentials of the “strategic litigation” approach to strengthen the legal protection of refugees and migrants. In addition to participants representing bar associations and NGOs from around Turkey, contributions were made by experienced European legal experts and litigators.

We have updated our legal information booklet for persons in immigration detention in Turkey and groups at risk of immigration detention. The resource, first launched in September 2016, is made available in 7 languages.

Back in February 2016, RRT had published a Legal Opinion Paper on difficulties encountered by foreign nationals subject to deportation and immigration detention procedures in notarizing a power of attorney to authorize legal representatives of their choice. Our new Legal Opinion Paper on this lingering problem takes stock of changes that came about over the past 2 years and a number of positive developments in the case law of competent domestic courts.

On 3 December, RRT organized a semimar in Istanbul on international legal standards that should inform rescue at sea. The seminar was attended by lawyers and NGO practitioners as well as law students from Istanbul Bilgi University and Koç University.

On 25-29 November RRT held a study visit to Italy to learn about the procedures and institutional arrangements in place for the identification, protection and care of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers.

RRT, in collaboration with Istanbul Bilgi University, organized a panel discussion in Istanbul on “Asylum-seeker Youth: Legal and Educational Perspectives”. The event was attended by representatives of relevant Government agencies and NGOs as well as students.

On 14-16 November RRT held a study visit to the UK to learn about the procedures and institutional arrangements in place for the identification, protection and care of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers.