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