Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation As the families of the disappeared and human rights defenders, Saturday Mothers/People have been staging the longest running protest in Turkey each Saturday at 12:00 pm in Galatasaray Square by carrying the photographs of hundreds of our people who were forcibly disappeared under custody. The Saturday Mothers/People sit-ins have also been held in such various locations as Diyarbakır, Batman, Urfa, Cizre et al. over the years. The sit-in protests staged in Hakkari province have been banned for years now. Saturday Mothers/People, who started to demand to know the truth about whereabouts of the disappeared in 1995, have been prevented from staging their silent sit-in protest at Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square since the 700th gathering. They have been reading out their weekly statements for the press in front of İHD İstanbul branch every On the 700th gathering on 25 August 2018, the police forcefully dispersed the group by using tear gas and plastic pellets. Shortly after, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu made a statement that the group has been “exploited by terrorist organizations.” ICJ No measures have been taken to support or sponsor civil society remembrance initiatives. Officials do not attend to remembrance activities. Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch There has been no progress in this regard. ICJ There are no monuments established or commemoration events carried out by the administration. 93. The design of such monuments and the planning and conducting of commemoration events should be carried out in consultation with victims’ families and other stakeholders. Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) The Working Group regrets not having received detailed information from the government as to the implementation of remembrancerelated initiatives. Awareness-raising and other preventive measures 94. Include the relevant provisions of the Declaration in the training given to military personnel and the police and to medical personnel, public officials, migration officials and other persons who may be Paragraph 52 National Human Rights Institution According to the Article 9 of the Law no. 6701, one of the duties of the Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREI) of Turkey is to raise awareness on human rights, fight against torture and ill-treatment and non-discrimination through providing The Working Group notes the information it has received from the Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREI). Concerning future capacitybuilding activities, the Working A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 50 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1