Ombudsman Institution

Though many citizens paid a fee for the passport in the last months of 2022 and got an appointment in 2023 due to the density, civil registry offices have demanded to reflect the raised fee differences.

An elementary school student who won a degree in international painting competitions applied to the Ombudsman Institution when the prizes she was supposed to receive from the Turkish Education Ministry were not given.

Aleyna Okuyucu living in the Black Sea province of Samsun won first and third place in two different international painting competitions held in 2017 and 2019.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged on March 2 to strengthen freedoms of expression and organization in Turkey and the right to a fair trial as part of a Human Rights Action Plan while emphasizing that the ultimate goal of the plan is to build a new constitution.

A group of former lawmakers from the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have staged a sit-in at parliament, protesting against the violence and curfews imposed on the southeastern towns of Cizre and Silopi.

The Parliament of Turkey has hosted a press conference joined by LGBT activists on the occasion of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

The Nov. 20 conference was initiated by a deputy of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in order to draw attention to killings of transsexual individuals, who are commonly subject to hate crimes in the country.