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• Press Release - April 14, 2010 Turkey’s treatment of refugees condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in six more applications

• Press Release - October 26, 2009 Turkey releases Iranian refugees in belated compliance with European Court

• Press Release - September 23, 2009 Turkey's deportation and detention practices condemned by European Court of Human Rights read the Judgement     read the Court's Press Release

• July 2009 TURKEY: Conditions in Seven Detention Centers 2008-09, submission to Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Main Report     Attachments

• Press Release - July 11, 2006 Iranian refugees win their case against Turkey in international court, UN Refugee Agency's perverse decision condemned.

• Press Release - July 20, 2005 Refugees Take Turkey to International Court

• BRIEFING PAPER Government/UNHCR continue fourth year of cruel limbo for Iranian Kurds in Turkey: Refugees bilked $1/4 million under threat of deportation for dodgy residence permits, protection offered by other countries obstructed, what next? August 2004

  	Appendix I: unofficial English translation of Turkish Ministry of Interior's April 12, 2004 documentation to refugees
  	Appendix II: UNHCR-Turkey's July 13, 2004 response to Iranian Refugees' Alliance, Inc.
  	Appendix III: Yuksekova Magistrate Court's summary deportation order to refugees not accepted in the asylum system

• Further Information on Urgent Appeal November 6, 2003--Fifty-three detained Iranian refugees released from detention, November 10, 2003

• Fifty-three detained Iranian refugees may face imminent deportation by Turkish authorities, November 6, 2003

• Twenty Iranian Kurds deported to Iran by Turkish police return after long ordeal, refugees fear more deportations, September 4, 2003

• IRANIAN KURDS AT RISK IN NORTHERN IRAQ AND TURKEY, UN agency and Turkish government withhold resettlement and protection, April 24, 2003

• Off the radar Screen:UNHCR/Government neglect imperils thousands of Iranian Kurdish refugees in Turkey and Northern Iraq  April 2003

• Letter to Secretary General of the United Nations FROM: 394 Iranian asylum applicants (904 persons) in Van-Turkey TO:The Honorable Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations RE:Impending deportation of Many Iranian Asylum Seekers from Van/Turkey Due to UNHCR’s Unfair Examination of Refugee Claims May 14, 2001 Signatures on file with Iranian Refugees’ Alliance, Inc.

• Unsafe Haven: Iranian Kurdish Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan   reprint from Iranian Refugees At-Risk  Summer 98

• Can't Say: Wish You Were There A Recent Visit of At-Risk Iranian Refugees in Turkey February 1997

• Iranian Refugees At-Risk
  Iranian Refugees' Alliance Quarterly Newsletter

  پناهندگان ایرانی در خطر
  
  بولتن فصلی نهاد همبستگی با پناهندگان ایرانی

• Evading Scrutiny: Does UNHCR¥s Refugee Status Determination Procedure measure up to international standards?   May 1995

  read UNHCR Ankara's pre-publication comments, April 1995 read UNHCR Ankara's post-publication comments, April 1997

• Preliminary Assessment of the new Turkish Government 
  and UNHCR Refugee Processing Systems for non-Europeans
  May 1995

• Gecekondu: Refuge for Iranian Refugees  October 1994