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Ties to Turkey in decided clearance cases

What the decided public record shows for cases in which ties to Turkey were alleged. Ties to any country are not themselves disqualifying, and every case turns on its own facts. This is decided history, not a prediction, and it says nothing about any nationality or community.

Decided cases

59

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

56%

33 granted · 26 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 5

decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor

The ties these cases involved

The kinds of relationship identified on Turkey allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Parent in foreign country31 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship22 cases
Sibling in foreign country17 cases
Foreign real estate15 cases
In law in foreign country12 cases
Extended family in foreign country8 cases
Foreign bank account or investment8 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Turkey cases where that detail was extracted. Extraction covers a subset of the record, so these are raw counts and not rates.
  • deep U.S. ties · credited in 11 granted cases
  • foreign assets divested · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00031Granted2024

    Applicant, a 62-year-old with a bachelor's and master's degree in public policy and administration, sought a security clearance after previously holding Public Trust and Secret clearances while workin…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01324Granted2024

    The applicant, seeking a public trust position, admitted to using marijuana from July 2015 to July 2023 and expressed intent to continue its use, violating federal drug laws. Despite these admissions,…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00612Denied2025

    The applicant in this case was a 49-year-old individual originally from Iraq, seeking a security clearance for employment as a linguist with a government contractor. The Department of Defense issued a…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01586Denied2024

    The applicant in this case was a 29-year-old single male who sought a security clearance for a position with a defense contractor. The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) c…

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Other countries in the record

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose Guideline B allegations name this country. The country field is free text in the source, so the variants observed in the record are mapped onto one canonical name and nothing is guessed; records naming several countries in one field are excluded rather than split. A case naming two countries counts once under each. Counts of country risk and of ties living in the United States are counted only where the decision says so expressly, so both are floors. Pages exist only for countries with at least 25 decided cases.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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