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.
The workshop was attended by representatives of bar associations in key locations around Turkey, the Union of Bar Associations, CSOs, UNHCR, UNDP, Turkish Ministry of Justice and the Constitutional Court of Turkey. The discussions aimed to take stock of progress made in supporting legal expertise development among practitioners in Turkey on asylum and immigration law and continuing needs requiring sustained support. The workshop also allowed participants to provide updates on their current and future planned training and capacity-building initiatives.
The event was organized in the framework of a project partnership among RRT, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), ECRE ve Mültecilerle Dayanışma Derneği (Mülteci-Der) supported by the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights Democracy (EIDHR) Turkey Program. The project aims to support legal expertise development among lawyers and legal practitioners in Turkey on asylum and immigration law, with a particular emphasis on applicable international and European standards.