Solidarity with OTHERS has submitted five separate contributions to the UN Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism Measures, drawing attention to Turkey’s misuse of security frameworks to silence dissent. Our inputs document systematic rights violations, ranging from the closure of 3,942 institutions by emergency decrees to the criminalisation of Belgium-based NGOs, and from widespread profiling of diaspora communities to the publication of “terrorism lists” that put more than 2,200 people at risk.

We highlighted how these practices amount to transnational repression, with dissidents facing surveillance, harassment, abductions, and unlawful extraditions. By sharing these five detailed cases, Solidarity with OTHERS called on the international community to ensure that counter-terrorism measures are not weaponised by authoritarian governments, and urged the UN to protect civil society space, uphold fundamental freedoms, and hold states accountable for misuse of global security mechanisms.