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) There is no recognition of enforced disappearances of the past and certainly no government policy to address them has ever been adopted. Most ironic of all, participants in the “Saturday Mothers” sit-in, people who had lost their sons and their loved ones have been routinely subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture. Thousands of enforced-disappearance investigation files are estimated to have been disregarded and not followed through by prosecutors around Turkey, who only wait for the 20-years statute of limitation to finally close the cases. The crime of enforced disappearance is still not an autonomous offence punishable by appropriate penalties, and the few cases seeing their day in court are routinely prosecuted as isolated incidents of abduction and murder, disregarding their systematic occurrence. LLG – TGRLSP7 Turkey has not duly acknowledged past disappearances. Enforced disappearance has not yet been introduced in the criminal code as an autonomous crime; there are virtually no convictions for enforced disappearances, the fate and the whereabouts of many disappeared persons is still unknown. Turkey also has not acknowledged recent enforced disappearance incidents following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt. There has been no effective investigation into these incidents, nor has there been any effective investigations into the incidents to find the whereabouts of those disappeared, to clarify the circumstances of their disappearance and those responsible of the incidents. 9 A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 7 Fourteen (14) victims or family members of victims of enforced disappearance, all did so in the hope that their contribution would help prevent new enforced or involuntary disappearances – in Turkey and abroad. All the contributions helped the JWF and IAHRAGeneva draw relevant conclusions and make recommendations to address the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearances. The JWF and IAHRAGeneva carefully examined and found all the information provided by the victims and their close family members consistent and credible. The JWF and IAHRAGeneva withheld the names and other relevant information of the victims, in order to protect them and their family members in Turkey (and outside of Turkey) from eventual reprisals. London Legal Group (LLG) and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (THRLSP).