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) families, the perpetrator was the government and it cannot thus investigate itself. In a case of a family of four abducted from abroad and forcibly transferred to Turkey one of the perpetrators was with one of the victims during the transfer from Istanbul to Ankara police station. Another perpetrator even attended their court hearing personally. LLG – TGRLSP There are mounting case studies that evidence the lack of proper investigation by the Turkish Government into criminal complaints. Victims of enforced disappearance and their families do not have adequate access to the investigation case files, and they are not sufficiently informed about the process. Several military officers were tried in domestic courts on charges of state crimes including enforced disappearances during the 1990s. However, the cases were transferred to remote towns due to “security reasons” 37 which impeded participation in the proceedings by relatives and lawyers of the victims.38 In most of the cases the panel of judges and prosecutors were changed several times; the defendants were released one by one, considering their extensive period of incarceration. The majority of these cases have ended with the acquittal of all the defendants.39 The joint report by three prominent NGOs in Turkey, Insan Hakları Dereği, Hafıza Merkezi and Insan Hakları Vakfı, provides an analysis of 115 investigations into the killings 37 Hafiza Merkezi, Any Hopes For Truth? A Comparative Analysis Of Enforced Disappearances And The Missing In The Middle East, North Africa And The Caucasus, 1 March 2019. < https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/en/kaynak/any-hopes-for-truth-a-comparative-analysis-of-enforced-disappearances-and-the-missing-in-themiddle-east-north-africa-and-the-caucasus/> accessed 11 February 2020. 38 CoE: Commissioner for Human Rights, Missing Persons and Victims Of Enforced Disappearance In Europe: Round-Table with human rights defenders organised by the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Strasbourg, 30 June and 1 July 2016, 22 February 2017. 39 Hafiza Merkezi, Any Hopes For Truth? A Comparative Analysis Of Enforced Disappearances And The Missing In The Middle East, North Africa And The Caucasus, 1 March 2019. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 32 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1