Domestic Cases: Turkey

10 August 2015

Access to Housing

Sulukule

Almost 3,500 Roma were forced to leave their centuries-old neighbourhood in the Sulukule area of Istanbul starting in 2005, to make way for an urban renewal programme. The ERRC has been supporting the community in a set of several, complicated legal proceedings to challenge the eviction.

State Response to Violence and Hate Speech

Iznik Pogrom

Following a pogrom which took place in 2014 in the city of Iznik, the ERRC has been supporting a local NGO to participate in the criminal proceedings as a civil party and ensure that the issue of racial motivation is properly considered by the court.