USCIRF 2024 Annual Report: Turkey

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Overview

Recent political and social conditions in Turkey continue to present challenges to religious freedom in the country. Amid Turkey’s other significant human rights abuses, including increasing levels of transnational repression, the government has also maintained or advanced policies that disenfranchise or threaten religious minorities in both Turkey and neighboring countries. Nonstate actors also intensified their religiously motivated campaigns of violence.

This country update outlines how Turkish religious nationalism has contributed to these restrictions and explains the violations religious minority communities and secularists in Turkey continue to face. The report also notes attacks by nonstate actors on the basis of religion.