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) humankind have been recorded to a dedicated database for further and/or future inquiries. DNA data bank with a view to facilitating effective DNA-led human identifications. Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch There has been no progress in this regard. Human Rights Association There is no DNA bank. JWF – IAHRA Geneva Family members of the victims who are currently in Turkey responded that they were not aware that the government had created a DNA bank and the authorities did not collect or did not request any DNA samples from family members for comparison. Twelve of the fourteen family members currently outside Turkey replied that they were not aware of any DNA bank and no sample was requested. Two families responded that the DNA data bank was not related to their case. LLG – TGRLSP No DNA bank was created for families to send samples. ICJ DNA samples of unidentified bodies buried after the 1999 earthquake have been matched with the families whose relatives were lost during the earthquake. No similar measure has been taken for alleged victims of enforced disappearance victims. 77. Immediately open archives, including military archives, that are relevant to cases of enforced disappearance, in order to facilitate the finding of undiscovered gravesites and speed up the search for missing persons. Paragraph 26, 27 Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch There has been no progress in this regard. Human Rights Association The archives are not accessible. Not only for the archival material relevant to cases of enforced disappearance, in order to facilitate the finding of undiscovered gravesites and speed up the search for missing persons, but also the archives of land registry before 1920 are closed for individual and independent researchers. JWF – IAHRA Geneva The two families in Turkey informed that they did not have any access to any government archive or documentation in searching The Working Group regrets that no progress has been made in this regard. It further observes that the right to truth is both a collective and an individual right. It is therefore essential that archives, including military archives, be opened and made fully accessible to the public. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 28 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1