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problems and family characteristics are evaluated. With regard to risks and needs, after the
form evaluation, group work and individual consultancy service is served to the child and
his/her family.
114. In individual consultancy services, home escaping, self-harm behaviours, suicide,
victimisation of abuse, crisis management, intervention to crisis and trauma modules are
implemented.
115. Group works consist of modules on personal development, healthy life, emotional
arrangement, personality improvement and addiction. While personality improvement and
healthy life modules are applied to all children, other modules also varies according to
individual circumstances such as being drifted into crime, victims of crime, substance
addiction, pregnancy, anger management, impulse disorder etc.
116. With regard to Recommendation 5-(g) (“ensure adequate training of all health
professionals involved with detainees, ….application of the Istanbul and Minnesota
Protocols;”); the Government would like to recall that at the training centres for the
personnel of the penal institutions and prisons, information on the importance and scope of
the Istanbul Protocol and its implementation principles relevant to the complaints of torture
is taught to the personnel responsible for conducting the healthcare services of penitentiary
institutions.
117. Also, during the training programs for the administrative and technical personnel of
the penitentiary institutions, which are carried out with the support of the Directorate of the
Institution of Forensic Medicine, the scope and principles of Istanbul Protocol is
elaborated.
118. Moreover, until today, 33,223 personnel have received trainings on “Human Rights”
at the training centres for the personnel of the penitentiary institutions.
119. Regarding the Recommendation 5-(i), (“ensure and facilitate regular, effective and
independent monitoring of all institutions or locations where individuals may be deprived
of their liberty, by national and local bodies…;”) the Government wishes to submit
following information:
120. In addition to its own supervisory bodies mentioned above (Article 40), the
penitentiary institutions directed by the Directorate-General of Prisons and Detention
Houses of the Ministry of Justice are monitored by ;
• -The Human Rights Inquiry Commission of Parliament, constituting the members or
parliament selected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey according to the
Law No: 3686 of the Commission on Human Rights Inquiry,
• -The Monitoring Boards established by the Law No: 4681,
• -The Ombudsman Institution established by the Law No: 6328,
• -The Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey, established by the Law No:
6701 dated 20 April 2016.
121.
Furthermore;
• -Since Turkey is a party of the European Convention against Torture and other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment since 1989 and is a party to
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) since 2011, all institutions or
locations where individuals may be deprived of their liberty are also open to
international monitoring.
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