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Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Turkey: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Turkey runs +20.5 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 4,892 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

68.8%
Asylum grant rate
31.2%
Asylum denial rate
4,892
Asylum decisions

Turkey in one line

Turkey's asylum grant rate is 68.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 4,892 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

68.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
4,892
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+20.5 pp
vs. national average
31.2%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Turkey's 68.8% upper-third grant history still mixes courts, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Turkey vs all nationalities by asylum grant rate

Where this nationality's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked nationality (a case-outcome measure, not a quality ranking)

68.8% 62nd of 196 higher than 134 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Turkey grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Turkey (68.8%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Indonesia
72.1%
Burkina Faso
71.9%
Libya
71.5%
Rwanda
71.2%
Kyrgyzstan
70.8%
Armenia
70.1%
Venezuela
69.9%
Mongolia
69.9%
Iran
69.4%
Turkey
68.8%
Cameroon
68.0%
Eritrea
66.6%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

Heavy-corpus nationality peers by merits volume, orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) neighbors above.

  • Nigeria · 5,094 merits · 60.4% grant
  • Romania · 4,183 merits · 65.3% grant
  • Eritrea · 3,671 merits · 66.6% grant
  • Ethiopia · 3,487 merits · 75.4% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Turkey: 4,892 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Turkey's 4,892-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Turkey nationals; gap vs national average +20.5 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 4,892 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 of 196).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Turkey asylum merits outcomes FY2015–2025 · 2025

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Turkey's grant-rate and caseload figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.