Asylum Procedure

The Chapter: Asylum Procedure in Turkey contains sections on:

A. General

1. Flow chart
2. Types of procedures
3. List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure
4. Number of staff and nature of the first instance authority
5. Short overview of the asylum procedure

B. Access to the procedure and registration

1. Access to the territory and push backs
2. Removal and refoulement
3. Registration of the asylum application

C. Procedures

1. Regular procedure
2. Dublin
3. Admissibility procedure
4. Border procedure
5. Accelerated procedure

D. Guarantees for vulnerable groups

1. Identification
2. Special procedural guarantees
3. Use of medical reports
4. Legal representation of unaccompanied children

E. Subsequent applications

F. The safe country concepts

1. First country of asylum
2. Safe third country

G. Information for asylum seekers and access to NGOs and UNHCR

1. Provision of information on the procedure/ 2. Access to NGOs and UNHCR

H. Differential treatment of specific nationalities in the procedure