{"id":929,"date":"2025-06-20T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/?page_id=929"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:47:05","slug":"information-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/turkmenistan\/information-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turkmenistan adopted its first <strong>Law on Refugees<\/strong> in 1997 and acceded to the\u202f1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol\u202fin 1998.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Migration Service (SMS) is the government body responsible for managing asylum procedures, including registering asylum-seekers and determining refugee status.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please be informed that there has been no asylum-seeker registered by authorities since 2009.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan adopted its first Law on Refugees in 1997 and acceded to the\u202f1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol\u202fin 1998.&nbsp; The State Migration Service (SMS) is the government body responsible for managing asylum procedures, including registering asylum-seekers and determining refugee status.&nbsp; Please be informed that there has been no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"parent":145,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-929","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929\/revisions\/1170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/centralasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}