TURKEY
- Current Issues
- Country Background, Politics & Law
- Human Rights Issues
- Security, Humanitarian Issues and Protection Related Issues
- Kurds
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Security
| Corruption | Security situation | |
| Security forces | Delinquency | |
Humanitarian issues
| Social Security | Displacement | |
| Housing | Education | |
| Food | Health Care | |
Protection-related issues
| Internal flight alternative | Third countries | |
| Return/repatriation | Positions on Return | |
01.09.2001 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR: Turkey is a country with food surplus ("Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Turkey") [#47163], [ID 14547]
"154. The World Food Programme (WFP) has not been involved in any relief or
development in Turkey WFP notes that Turkey is a country with food surplus; it
purchases food in Turkey for transport to other countries with food needs. Despite the
government’s food embargo as part of its counter insurgency strategy in south-eastern
Turkey, and the lack of food as a contributing factor to internal displacement, WFP has
not taken up this issue."
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