Recommendations
A/HRC/33/51/Add.1
70. Ratify the International Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance without delay and without
reservations and recognize the competence
of
the
Committee
on
Enforced
Disappearances in accordance with articles
31 and 32 of the Convention.
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)
Paragraph 21
Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform
– Human Rights Watch
Turkey is still not party to the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Human Rights Association
Turkey has not signed the United Nations International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, adopted by the General Assembly of the UN on
20 December 2006 and entered into force on 23 December 2010.
JWF-IAHRA Geneva
The Republic of Turkey has so far failed to accede to the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED), despite repeated calls by
other states parties and the civil society, 28 and the renewed
widespread and systematic pattern of enforced disappearances in
the country.
LLG – TGRLSP
Turkey has not ratified the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
ICJ
Turkey has not ratified the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
In the same vein, the Working Group
urges the Government of Turkey to
ratify promptly the International
Convention for the Protection of All
Persons
from
Enforced
Disappearance.
Paragraphs 22-28
Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform
– Human Rights Watch
The Government of Turkey has neither adopted a policy to
address disappearances nor taken a nonjudicial measure, such as
establishing a truth commission or forms of remembrance and
commemoration, to satisfy the right to truth29.
The Working Group regrets that
Turkey continues to deny the families
of the disappeared their guaranteed
and absolute right to the truth by
failing to establish a dedicated and
independent search mechanism in
Truth
28
29
21
See for example: https://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session21/TR/TurkeyMatriceRecommendations.pdf.
Although a sub-commission was established within the Human Rights Inquiry Commission of the Turkish Parliament, which has so far only investigated the
disappearances of Cemil Kırbayır in 1980 and Tolga Baykal Ceylan in 2004, the findings of inquiries have never been seriously taken into account by the judicial
authorities and no trial has been commenced on these regards.
A/HRC/45/13/Add.4
71. Adopt immediately a comprehensive
policy to address disappearances, which
would include the creation of an
extrajudicial
mechanism
specifically
devoted to searching for those who have
disappeared. This body should be composed
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