Situation during the visit
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Measures taken/current situation
Level of implementation and
observations (to be completed by
the WGEID)
JWF – IAHRA Geneva
No such law has ever been promulgated or even proposed for
discussion and adoption in the Turkish Parliament.
LLG – TGRLSP
Turkey has not introduced a law or legislative framework
recommended by the Working Group. The Government still
lacks transparency and arbitrarily withholds information on the
activities of state officials and institutions.
ICJ
There is still no legislative framework concerning access to
information in enforced disappearance cases.
79. Continue cooperating with the
humanitarian mandate of the Committee on
Missing Persons in Cyprus and activate the
process of access to burial sites to support
the families affected through return to them
of the remains of their missing relatives.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Turkey continues to support the work of the Committee on
Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. Turkey has been contributing
annually to the budget of the CMP, which reached almost 1
million dollars. The most recent contribution was in the amount
of 100,000 Dollars in July 2019. In addition to 30 areas for the
period 2015-2018, CMP’s request for access to 30 additional
suspected burial sites located in the military areas in the TRNC
have been granted in June 2019. There will be no time constraints
attached to this unhindered access and excavation planning will
be made by the CMP.
Human Rights Association
It is not the case
ICJ
On 14 June 2019, CMP reported that Turkey had granted access
for CMP excavation teams to 30 suspected burial sites in military
areas in the north of Cyprus. According to CMP, Turkey also
donated 92.000 EUR and 200.000 USD from 2017 to 2019. Since
2016, a total number of 345 missing Turkish and Greek Cypriots
were identified during excavations and exhumations.
The Working Group welcomes the
readiness of the Government of
Turkey to support the ongoing
transitional justice processes led by
the Committee on Missing Persons
(CMP) in Cyprus. However, it calls on
the Turkish military authorities to
make the sites in the northern parts of
Cyprus accessible to the CMP for
further assessments at all times. In
addition, full access to military
archives should be provided to the
CMP and family associations, with a
view to identifying new burial sites.
The Working Group recalls its general
comment on the right to the truth in
relation to enforced disappearances
which provides that “each victim has
the right to know the truth regarding
the circumstances of the enforced
disappearance, the progress and
results of the investigation and the fate
of the disappeared person. Each State
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