75. Establish a register with the exact or approximate number of disappeared persons. 33 34 35 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Paragraphs 22-28 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) Relying on the testimonies, confessions and information gathered, İHD mapped the burial sites. Hafiza Merkezi keeps the records of the burial sites, as well. LLG – TGRLSP The Turkish Government has not taken any steps to examine potential mass graves or establish a mapping of all burial sites, despite hundreds of mass graves uncovered by the Human Rights Association. 33 A report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published in February 2017 34 and the February 2017 Council of Europe report on missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance35 highlighted that human rights defenders face major difficulties in accessing the field on cases of enforced disappearances that occurred in the 1990’s, for example in order to locate mass graves. The situation remains the same in 2020 due to on-going violence and a sharp deterioration of human rights record after the military coup attempt of July 2016. ICJ There is no information available to the public that necessary measures have been taken. The Working Group reiterates its request to the Government of Turkey to take into serious account the interactive map of mass graves in Turkey prepared by NGO Human Rights Association and to take appropriate action in coordination with the families of the disappeared. Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch There has been no progress in this regard. Human Rights Association There is no registry -even on the estimated figures- of disappeared persons or burial sites. The Working Group notes with concern that the Government of Turkey has yet to establish a register with the exact or approximate number of disappeared people and urges Bianet, HD: 348 Mass Graves 4.201 Bodies Found, 25 May 2015. <http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/164783-ihd-348-mass-graves-4-201-bodies-found> accessed 11 February 2020. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report on the impact of the state of emergency on human rights in Turkey, including an update on the South-East, January – December 2017, March 2018. < https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/TR/2018-03-19_Second_OHCHR_Turkey_Report.pdf> accessed 11 February 2020. CoE: Commissioner for Human Rights, Missing Persons and Victims Of Enforced Disappearance In Europe: Round-Table with human rights defenders organised by the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Strasbourg, 30 June and 1 July 2016, 22 February 2017. < https://rm.coe.int/ref/CommDH(2017)4> accessed 11 February 2020. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 26 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1

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