“Still critical”
Prospects in 2005 for Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey

Summary

Recommendations

Introduction

Obstacles to Return

Destruction of Infrastructure

Insecurity in Areas of Return

Village Guard System

Unlawful Killings by Security Forces

Assessing the Scale of the Problem

Unreliable Government Figures on Return

Under-recording Initial Displacement

Over-recording the Number of Returns

Improving the Quality and Accuracy of Return Statistics

Turkish Government Policy toward IDPs

The Return to Village and Rehabilitation Project

Promising New Initiatives

A new government agency for internally displaced persons

Joint UNDP-Turkish government project to support IDPs

The Compensation Law

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

March 2005   Vol. 17, No. 2(D)