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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

PRACTICES AND SERVICES FOR SYRIANS UNDER

TEMPORARY PROTECTION

I. ENTRY INTO THE COUNTRY AND REGISTRATION

The registration procedures for Syrians under the Temporary Protection Regulation
No. 2014/6883 of October 22, 2014 are carried out by the registration/dispatch centers
located at the Directorate General of Migration Management offices in each of the 81
provinces. There is a total of 208 registration centers, including more than one in the
areas where Syrians are concentrated.

Initially, biometric and personal data of persons entering our country from the Syrian
border were taken by temporarily authorized staff in the Provincial DGMM and
collected in the police database for tracking foreigners in Türkiye, “Polnet,” according to
former arrangements. When DGMM established provincial offices on May 18, 2015, in
accordance with the protocol made with the Directorate General of National Police, the
works and actions of the Provincial Directorate of National Police Foreigners Section
were transferred to the Provincial DGMM according to Law No. 6458, and after then,
registrations started to be collected in a system called “GöçNet” established within the
DGMM. Together with GöçNet, the information of all foreigners was combined into
a single database and a new registration form was created through different inquiries.

For Syrians whose preliminary registration processes were completed in Türkiye and
were taken into “temporary protection” before March 2016, “Temporary Protection
Identity Cards” were issued. However, with the “Procedures and Principles for the
Implementation of Tasks and Procedures Related to Foreigners within the Scope of
Temporary Protection” Regulation No. 2016/8 dated March 15, 2016, it was decided to
conduct a security investigation before Syrians were taken into temporary protection
and before identification documents were issued, and the “pre-registration” application
began. In this framework, the address information of the person as well as the biometric
and personal data is taken in the Provincial DGMM for pre-registration, and an ID
number starting from “98” is issued. DGMM then determines whether Syrians whose
preliminary registration is completed will be taken under temporary protection, that is
to say, whether they will be given an ID number starting with 99, after an investigation
is made by the related security and intelligence units. People must not leave their
residence until the investigation is concluded.

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