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Turkey’s notorious intelligence agency, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), secretly designated a Kazakh medical student as a national security threat without providing any evidence, effectively destroying his future and barring him from completing his medical studies in Turkey.
The revelation surfaced in an October 2024 ruling by Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which dismissed a complaint filed by Kazakh national Ramiz Islamov over violations of his fundamental rights. The court, widely seen as subservient to the intelligence service, sided with MIT despite serious due process concerns.
Islamov had lived in Turkey since 2010 and was only six months away from graduating from Bursa Uludağ University’s medical faculty when he was abruptly deported in early 2018. Turkish authorities claimed he was a “terrorist,” assigning him the G-82 security code, commonly used to label individuals considered threats to national security.
Terrorism charges are among the most frequently abused criminal allegations employed by Turkish authorities to profile unsuspecting individuals with no ties to terrorism or violence. These charges are routinely invoked to suppress legitimate opposition and to target critical journalists, academics and opposition politicians, all in an effort to reinforce the authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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