On July 25, 2025, in the city of Batumi, Levan Ioseliani, Public Defender of Georgia, met with Mehmet Akarca, Chief Ombudsman of the Republic of Turkey, and other representatives of the Turkish delegation.

Levan Ioseliani and Mehmet Akarca discussed the situation of human rights in the region, emphasized the long-standing cooperation between the human rights institutions of the two countries and expressed their readiness to continue this relationship.

The ombudsmen of Georgia and Turkey have been fruitfully cooperating for years in the areas of introducing modern technologies into the penitentiary system, improving the extradition process, protecting the rights of migrants, etc.