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)
for the whereabouts of the disappeared person. In addition, in
both cases, the families did not get any response from the
prosecutor’s office or any police station despite their constant
requests and follow-up. In one case, the vehicle that the
disappeared person was using was found shortly after he
disappeared, however, even though the family had requested
investigation and forensics on the vehicle many times; no
research took place. It was 5 months after the disappearance,
when the government received some pressure from international
organizations, that an investigation on the vehicle of the
disappeared person was opened. In the other case in Turkey, not
only the information in the archives was not available but even
when the prosecutors officially requested to track victim’s phone
signal, no replies were provided by the law enforcement. Eleven
of the fourteen family members currently outside Turkey replied
that they did not have any access to any government archive or
documentation in searching for the whereabouts of the
disappeared person. The three remaining families replied that this
was not related to their case.
LLG – TGRLSP
Turkey has not made its archives accessible to the public to
ensure that information held in state and military archives on
missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance is
properly assembled.
ICJ
No measures have been taken.
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Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform
– Human Rights Watch
There has been no progress in this regard.
Human Rights Association
Only official tool for access to information that could potentially
lead to clarification when investigating cases of disappeared
persons is the Law No: 4982 “On Right of Information
Acquirement”. But, in the Law, the State is given the right not to
share information in case the information is classified as state
secret.
The Working Group notes with
concern that no progress has been
made in this regard.
The Working Group recalls its
recommendation about the right to
access to information in this regard.
A/HRC/45/13/Add.4
78. Promulgate a law on access to
information and a proper legislative
framework on archives, so as to guarantee
full access to all information that could
potentially lead to clarification when
investigating cases of disappeared persons.
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