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) resulted from the security operations during 2015-2016 curfews. The report concludes that none of those investigations were genuine investigations aiming at clarifying the circumstances of the killings and held those responsible to account. Since the coup attempt in July 2016, a new pattern of enforced disappearances has arisen, with more than twenty cases of academics, teachers and public servants being kidnapped by alleged plain clothed security agents acting for MIT (National Intelligence Organisation). 40 These cases share similar characteristics with the corroborated kidnappings (often witnessed by families, recordings of closed-circuit television and members of the public) and were carried out by groups of men in Volkswagen vans claiming to be police officers. The majority of the individuals targeted also have some alleged or perceived links to Gulenists (the organisation alleged by the Turkish Government to have been the power behind the coup attempt of July 2016), with many having lost their jobs or had their previous employment institutions shut down by the state of emergency measures for the alleged links to terrorist organisations. These cases of abductions and enforced disappearances by security or intelligence services in several provinces have not been adequately investigated. 41 For instance, In July 2019, the authorities confirmed that they arrested four men, Salim Zeybek, Yasin Ugan, Özgür Kaya, and Erkan Irmak, who had been reported as abducted four months before the date of the arrest. The Turkish authorities, however, have failed to reveal or clarify where the four persons had been. The families of the four men were permitted to see them briefly in the presence of police officers following the arrests, but the families’ lawyers have been completely barred from visitation. When the families tried to ask 41 33 Stockholm Centre for Freedom, ‘Enforced disappearances in Turkey’, January 2019 < https://stockholmcf.org/enforced-disappearences-in-turkey-2/ > accessed 8 March 2017. See also, Human Rights Watch report, ‘Police Torture and Abduction in Turkey’, 12 October 2017: https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/10/12/custody/police-torture-and-abductions-turkey. European Commission, Turkey 2019 Report, 29 May 2019 https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/sites/near/files/20190529-turkey-report.pdf accessed 11 February 2020. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 40