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) Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch Since the presentation of the report in September 2016, Turkey has not made significant progress in dealing with the past, particularly in upholding and promoting the victims’ rights to truth, justice, reparation, memory, and guarantees of non-recurrence. The Working Group notes with concern that a culture of impunity perpetuated by the Turkish authorities has in turn led to systematic violations of basic rights, most notably in the aftermath of the attempted coup. The Working Group is particularly alarmed by an increase in alleged cases of enforced disappearances reported to have been perpetrated against actual or perceived members of Gulen/Hizmet movement, classified by the Government of Turkey as ‘Gülenist Terror Organization (Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü, FETÖ)’ or ‘Parallel State Organisation (Paralel Devlet Yapılanması, PDY)’. Serious allegations have also been made concerning what appears to be a systematic practice of State-sponsored extraterritorial abductions and forcible return of Turkish nationals from numerous States to Turkey. Similarly, the Working Group has received General The Working Group recommends that the Government of Turkey: 65. Recognize the enforced disappearances of the past and adopt a comprehensive policy to fully address them in all relevant areas in order to guarantee the victims’ rights to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, through both a strengthened judicial system and a newly created extrajudicial mechanism. Paragraphs 7-9 The Government of Turkey has not acknowledged the enforced disappearances of the 1990s or made the slightest effort to ensure the right of the relatives of the disappeared, and society as a whole, to learn their fate and whereabouts, the identity of perpetrators, and the causes that gave rise to the violations. Nor has the Government of Turkey recognized or responded in any way to compelling reports of around two dozen cases of possible enforced disappearances over the past three years. These have consisted of abductions of men – many of them in Ankara and in some cases last seen in the custody of individuals whom witnesses identified as state officials. The men were then reported by their families missing for periods ranging from several weeks to many months. In 2019, five men resurfaced in police custody after being missing for over five months and a sixth for around nine months. They were then promptly brought before courts which ordered their pretrial detention. They were restricted from seeing independent lawyers sent by their families. In cases of reported abductions in 2017, only one among several who went missing before resurfacing in police custody chose to issue a formal complaint. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 6 Follow up to the recommendations made by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, following its visit to Turkey in March 2016 (A/HRC/33/51/Add.1, paragraphs 64 - 102)