Update on Turkey's Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking
6/20/2007 11:14 AMRecent research on Turkey's efforts to combat human trafficking were presented by Dr. Ilknur Altuntas, a judge in the Ministry of Justice in Ankara, Turkey, and a 2006–07 International Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Turkey is located between Asia and Europe and, as such, is a center of human trafficking. Most victims are women and girls from Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
In 2002 Turkey set up the National Task Force on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (NTF). Since then, two shelters and a nationwide hotline have been established for victims. In cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Turkey launched an awareness-raising campaign to educate the population about the social impacts of trafficking in humans. Also, a number of reforms have been adopted in the Turkish Penal code to better prosecute offenders.
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