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and Detention Centres and the Ombudsman Institution, as well as with all relevant nongovernmental organizations in order to ensure that the Institution is able to effectively fight
against torture and ill-treatment.
105. Currently, the reports of the Monitoring Boards for Prisons and the Provincial and
Sub-provincial Human Rights Boards and the applications received by the Institution are
under consideration. The Institution is in the process of planning visits with a view to fulfill
its function as NPM.
106. In this context, it has performed its first visits as the National Prevention Mechanism
to the police headquarters, psychiatric nursing hospitals and prisons in Rize and Trabzon,
on October 16-18, 2017.
107. With regard to Recommendation 4-(b) (“ensure adequate access to work, training,
education and recreation for all offenders, including terrorism-related convicts…”) the
Government would like to refer that the Law No: 5275 on the Execution of Sentences and
Security Measures takes the rehabilitation during execution as a basis. It is stipulated in
Article 7 of the said Law that:
(1) The success of programs aiming at the rehabilitation of convicts during the
execution of prison sentences shall be measured by new attitudes and skills gained
by convicts. For this purpose, there should be motivation on the side of convict
towards the efforts of rehabilitation.
(2) The prison sentence shall be executed in accordance with such programs,
methods, means and mentality as shall be designed to minimise the harmful effects
inherent in the prison sentence. The means of rehabilitation shall be implemented
according to procedures and principles that shall ensure the protection of the
convict’s health and his self-respect.”
108. In addition, “Part Four”, which includes 8 different Sections and 29 different
Articles of the Law No: 5275, has been dedicated only to the matter of “Rehabilitation” and
it has been guaranteed in the legislation that utmost sensitivity to this matter shall be
displayed.
109. As to Recommendation 4-(d) (“ensure the prioritisation of alternatives to detention
for all juvenile offenders…..ensure their detention in separate rehabilitation facilities…”)
the Government would like to inform that alternatives to detention for juvenile offenders
are in place and progressing.
110. In this regard, “Anka Child Support Programme” is developed by the Ministry of
Family and Social Policies (MFSP). In this program, field personnel and academics work
on preparing pyscho-social support and intervention schemes for children under protection,
i.e. staying at child support centers of MFSP, who are drifted into crime, victims of crime,
at risk of crime and living on streets.
111. Concerned child’s needs and risks are assessed by way of individualized need and
risk evaluation form (INRDF) (BİRDEF).
112. It is aimed that children drifted into crime, victims of crime, at risk of social dangers
on streets are motivated to be open minded, forward-looking, self-improving, believing in
success and themselves, to live in welfare and to be prosperous individuals.
113. Within the framework of Anka Child Support Program, a professional consultant is
assigned to every child by institution director. The consultant fills an individualized risk
and need evaluation form for accepted child in the first ten days. On the form, how the child
came to the institution, reason of acceptance, educational status of child, economic status
of the family, habitual residence, friendship relationships, physical status, psychological
status, addiction status, abuse and delinquency status, personal characteristics, behavioural
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