Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation 61 A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 the basis of pluralism and among the persons having knowledge and experience in the area of work of the Institution. Overall, independency and the autonomy of the Institute has not been safeguarded. TIHEK became operational by November 2017 following the publication of the implementation regulation. Although having the duty to “investigate, decide, and follow up on human rights violations ex officio” as identified in the founding Law of TİHEK, there has been no work carried out concerning allegations about “short-term enforced disappearances” which have been reported on by Human Rights Watch, Ankara Bar Association, Human Rights Association and Rights Initiative Association and are described in detail in the commentary responding to the Working Group’s first recommendation (see page 1 of this document). TİHEK does not have enough staff, experience, budget and necessary power to act as an independent National Preventive Mechanism as identified by the Optional Protocol of the CAT. Human Rights Association The problems that form the basis of our critique of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TİHEK) authorized as the “National Prevention Mechanism” which is supposed to be an effective and significant instrument for the prevention of torture have also remained the same as of 2019. No steps were taken to make TİHEK operate in line with the Paris Principles and OPCAT provisions. Functional and financial independence problems, which are among these foremost principles, have yet to be resolved. There are principal and methodological errors in the visit reports issued by the institution as well. İHD and HRFT are of the impression based on these reports issued in 2019 that preventive visits to detention centres did not bear the minimum standards and that these visits were paid only as a formality. JWF – IAHRA Geneva The Law on Turkish Human Rights and Equality Institution of April 20, 2016 provided for a new body, which is fully dependent Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID)