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) which are deeply embedded in history, tradition, religion and culture. The Government of Turkey should recognize that women play a fundamental role in securing and advancing the rights of disappeared persons. They are entitled to commensurate redress, which should include at minimum financial reparations, psychosocial support, and guarantees of non-repetition. 92. Sponsor memorials as well as support civil society remembrance initiatives, including their proper maintenance through public funds. Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch There has been no progress in this regard. Moreover, the Saturday Mothers/People, who started to demand to know the truth about whereabouts of the disappeared in 1995, have been staging the longest running protest in Turkey for 700 weeks each Saturday at 12:00 pm in Galatasaray Square in Istanbul by carrying the photographs of hundreds of our people who were forcibly disappeared under custody. They have been prevented from staging their silent sit-in protest at Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square since the 700th gathering. On the 700th gathering on 25 August 2018, the police forcefully dispersed the group by using tear gas and plastic pellets. Shortly after, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu made a statement that the group has been “exploited by terrorist organizations.” 49 Since then they are not allowed to gather at the Galatasaray have been reading out their weekly Square, they read out their weekly statements for the press in front of İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association) İstanbul Office every Saturday under the intense pressure of the security forces. Human Rights Association In condemning the authorities’ response to the protests of Saturday mothers who have been seeking truth and justice for decades, the Working Group urges the Government of Turkey to protect and uphold their right to expression, peaceful assembly and association, along with the rights to truth, justice, memory, and reparations. 49 “Joint İHD-HRFT Statement On the Attack Against Saturday Mothers, Families of the Disappeared, and Human Rights Defenders Before The 700th Sit-In”, available at https://ihd.org.tr/en/joint-ihd-thiv-statement-on-the-attack-against-saturday-mothers-families-ofthe-disappeared-and-human-rights-defenders-before-the-700th-sitin/. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 49 Paragraph 51