Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) city of Ankara, the capital, where there is a camera tracking system for vehicles all over the city. In one case the vehicle operated by the disappeared person was found 4 days later, but there was no investigation. No camera recordings were taken from the nearby places where our missing relative`s car was found. As regards the court system, the families in Turkey feel that they were only an extension of the executive, as even the judges with high powers did not use those powers to properly handle the cases of enforced disappearances. Because of the political pressure from the executive, five of the families outside Turkey are of the view that even though the courts have the necessary means to handle disappearance cases, they even rejected investigations into the enforced disappearance. Five other families outside Turkey were of the view that the courts did not have the necessary means to handle disappearance cases. Four families outside Turkey replied that this question was not applicable to their case or did not respond to this particular question. ICJ No measures have been taken. 82. Prosecute all cases of enforced disappearance, regardless of the perpetrator and of the time when they were committed. Paragraph 32 Ministry of Justice 35 Law enforcement officers, on the other side, are obliged to notify immediately the incidents they have handled, the individuals who have been apprehended, and all the initial measures taken to the Dismally low prosecution and conviction rates have fostered a widely perceived culture of impunity. The Working Group reiterates that the termination or suspension of the criminal investigation regarding an alleged enforced disappearance does not release the State from its obligation to search, locate and A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 Public prosecutor who bears the main responsibility to ascertain the material truth may conduct any kind of examination either directly or through law enforcement officers under his command and demand all kinds of information needed in the course of investigation from all public servants, public and private institutions. Written requests of public prosecution units for information during pending investigations have to be responded within a certain period of time, as stipulated in the article 322 of the CCP, non-compliance of which can give rise to criminal liability, an infringement of the article 257 of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC - no:5237). The Working Group notes with concern that Turkey continues to apply a statute of limitation period of 20 years for crimes under which enforced disappearances are usually investigated and prosecuted.

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