Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
500
Cases Prosecuted
1967
Cases Recorded by Police
13
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Discrepancy between the numbers registered by the police and by prosecutors is due to the fact that most crimes are registered by the prosecutors, rather than the police. Prosecution and sentencing data only include crimes of incitement to hatred and discrimination.
NPC
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report
Turkey continued implementing ODIHR’s TAHCLE programme, on the basis of a memorandum of understanding signed in 2016. Several thousand police officers have been trained on hate crimes.
ODIHR Recommendations
ODIHR observes that Turkey’s law enforcement agencies have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.