Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
Continue its efforts to improve the status of women in political, economic and social life, and to ensure equal representation in decision-making positions in the public and private sectors
Cease interfering in the internal affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic and terminate the Turkish aggression on the Syrian territory with immediate effect
Cease imposing the Turkish language and demographic changes implemented in cooperation with terrorist groups in certain regions in the Syrian Arab Republic
Provide the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus with all the information that the Turkish Government and armed forces have on the burial sites of missing persons, including archives and restricted military areas
Respect the right of return in safety and dignity of internally displaced persons from the occupied territories of Cyprus and provide them with the necessary compensation
Comply with the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning human rights violations in the occupied areas of Cyprus, not under the effective control of the Government of Cyprus
Put an end to arbitrary arrests and detention of journalists, politicians and activists, immediately release those detained on supposed connections to banned organizations, and bring anti-terror laws in line with international standards
Provide the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus with all information that the Turkish authorities have on possible burial sites, including full access to archives and unrestricted access to military areas
Continue applying a human rights-centred approach to people seeking refuge in the country and share its best practice in this regard with the international community
Continue to review and assess its immigration laws and policies to ensure that the rights of migrants are safeguarded, in accordance with international human rights standards
Consider reviewing discriminatory provisions against persons with disabilities and harmonize its anti-discrimination legislation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Continue the efforts towards the protection and promotion of the right of persons with disabilities, especially accessibility for children with disabilities
Ensure that solitary confinement and other non-consensual treatment of persons with disabilities in institutions is avoided, and investigate those responsible for such measures with a view to imposing criminal or administrative sanctions
Continue promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, including by harmonizing its anti-discrimination legislation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Repeal the discriminatory provisions with regard to persons with disabilities and harmonize its anti-discrimination legislation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Repeal discriminatory provisions against people with disabilities and harmonize its anti-discrimination legislation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Continue to implement policies aimed at speeding up and promoting the insertion and the active participation of all persons with disabilities in the society and their community and allocate the necessary resources
Strengthen measures to avoid discrimination based on ethnic grounds, ensuring that Kurdish, Armenian and Roma people have the same access to public services, especially in education and health
Continue efforts to consult non-Muslim minorities with a view to addressing the challenges faced by these minorities when electing members of their institutions
Improve access to sexual and reproductive health services, especially for Kurdish women and other minority women, and for women living in rural and remote areas, and avoid early and unwanted pregnancies
Allow children of Greek citizens working in Istanbul to enrol in the Greek minority schools and grant them an equivalent diploma upon completion of their studies
End the seven-year regulatory gap and proceed without further delay to the adoption and implementation of new electoral regulations so that Turkish citizens belonging to non-Muslim communities are able to elect their leadership and thus manage their charitable foundations
Undertake the adequate steps concerning the property claims of persons of Bulgarian identity from Eastern Thrace, following Bulgaria’s recommendations from the first universal periodic review cycle
Adequately investigate and effectively prosecute racist hate speech and discriminatory statements directed at minorities, such as Armenians, Kurds and Roma
Continue to take steps to promote and protect the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and combat discrimination, stereotypes and prejudice against minority groups
Urge State media and State leaders at all levels to meet their obligations under the Constitution’s article 10, treat all people equally regardless of religion, and speak out against derogatory statements made against Jews, Christians and other religious minorities
Strengthen the legislative framework to eradicate child marriage, including unregistered religious marriages, in order to guarantee the rights of all married women and their children
Continue working to strengthen its legal and institutional framework, to prevent and respond in a timely manner to cases of abandonment, ill- treatment or violence against children and adolescents
Consider the effective implementation of the 2019–2023 Development Plan and other National Strategies and Action Plans aimed at promoting the rights of women, children and persons with disabilities
Continue to ensure that all relevant personnel providing support services through women’s shelters and violence prevention and monitoring centres receive adequate training and capacity-building to more effectively assist the women in their care
Continue the policy of combating all forms of discrimination against women and guarantee women’s enjoyment of rights and equal opportunities in all domains
Implement relevant policies and action plans to advance gender equality and promote women’s empowerment and participation in political and economic decision-making processes
Finalize and effectively implement the Provincial Action Plan on Combating Early and Forced Marriage and the 2018–2023 Strategy Document and National Action Plan on Combating Early and Forced Marriage
Strengthen measures to combat discrimination and violence against women, including through the implementation of relevant laws, eliminating any loopholes in national legislation that might undermine the protection of women’s rights and addressing discriminatory stereotypes that affect women
Continue efforts to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and implement effectively the action plans on the empowerment of women and combating violence against women
Eliminate references to so-called honour crimes in the Criminal Code, and strengthen measures to eradicate discriminatory stereotypes regarding women, and their role in the family and society
Continue to consolidate the achievements in the promotion of the rights, inclusion, equal opportunities and well-being of women and girls within the framework of the national programmes
Create safe and efficient mechanisms for women, particularly refugees, to report cases of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, as well as launching campaigns to encourage them to do so
Increase the number of women’s shelters, ensure unrestricted access for all women, including physically disabled women, and strictly prohibit contact between women and their perpetrators in these institutions
Address the root causes of the pervasive underreporting of gender- based violence and undertake concrete efforts to encourage reporting, including through the provision of adequate resources for this purpose
Continue efforts to prevent discrimination against women and to create equal rights and opportunities for them, including through national strategic programmes and action plans
Elaborate a revision of the regulatory framework to ensure at least one year of genuinely free and compulsory pre-primary education, and an improvement in the provision of pre-primary education that would enable all children, especially refugees, to attend school
Repeal illegal measures that dismissed tens of thousands from their governmental positions, abolish decisions that ousted democratically elected officials, release those arrested among these officials, and compensate those affected by these measures
Increase actions targeted at preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and proactive identification of victims, especially in the context of the refugee and migrant crisis
Continue its efforts to combat trafficking in persons, including by strengthening the legal framework and ensuring the safety and welfare of victims of trafficking
Adopt a comprehensive anti-trafficking law and continue efforts to prevent, supress and punish trafficking in persons, in line with target 5.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
Adopt a general law against trafficking in persons and continue efforts to prevent, suppress and punish this phenomenon and all forms of sexual exploitation of children
Prevent misuse of provisions concerning public order, public health and public morals to ensure freedom of assembly and association for all citizens, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
Enhance efforts to raise awareness of human rights in the judiciary and organize training courses on the issues that pertain to freedom of expression and the press
Take further measures to promote freedom of expression and the press, including fostering a political and social environment that more broadly embraces media activities
Adopt comprehensive legislation for the protection of human rights defenders that includes the investigation of allegations of presumed violations, acts of intimidation and reprisals
Strengthen freedom of expression and privacy online and offline, including by refraining from blocking online content without judicial oversight and from resorting to Internet and mobile shutdowns
Ensure that human rights defenders and journalists can exercise their tasks without fear of reprisals, including through bringing those responsible for attacks and harassment of journalists to justice
Continue to take the necessary measures to ensure people’s full enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and human rights, in particular in the civil and political domains
Release all those democratically elected politicians that have been arbitrarily detained or arrested and refrain from further violations in this regard
Guarantee the rights to freedom of expression and assembly, including by lifting bans on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex public events, and ensuring relevant laws are implemented in a manner that does not curtail fundamental freedoms and ensures a proportional and legitimate response to protest activity
Ensure freedom of expression in all its forms by refraining from censoring social and conventional media and fully enabling and respecting academic and artistic freedom
Take steps to encourage freedom of expression, including freedom of the press, association and peaceful assembly, and to align its legislation in this respect with its obligations and commitments under relevant international law
Adopt legislative arrangements and specific measures implementing the Judicial Reform Strategy, inter alia, as part of ensuring media freedom and freedom of opinion and expression, both online and offline
Take appropriate measures to protect freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as to guarantee a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations, human rights defenders and journalists, including by defining the limitations to fundamental freedoms in compliance with international obligations
End arbitrary arrests of media professionals, civil society activists, academics, and so many others for exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms. End discrimination against members of religious minority groups
Guarantee the freedom of thought and religion, and the rights to freedom of information and freedom of expression, and ensure that human rights defenders and journalists can carry out their legitimate and peaceful activities without fear of attack or reprisal
Intensify monitoring of places of detention and ensure that impartial investigations are carried out into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment, in accordance with its policy of zero tolerance of torture
Cease the excessive use of pretrial detention, ensure human rights defenders and critics alleged to have committed an offence are guaranteed due process and fair trial rights, and strengthen the capacity of the judiciary to operate independently
Take concrete steps to ensure access to justice for people in vulnerable situations, such as women, children, migrants, the elderly or persons with disabilities
Promote the investigation of all allegations of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, guaranteeing that all those responsible are brought to justice
Strengthen its separation of powers by rolling back the Constitutional amendment of article 159 in order to improve the independence of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, and by introducing a vertical system of appeal for rulings of Peace Judges
Strengthen the rule of law and ensure the independence of the judiciary and prohibit executive branch interference with or attempts to exert influence over the judiciary
Repeal all provisions that restrict judicial and prosecutorial independence, including those that allow the executive to appoint a large number of members to the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, as well as to the Constitutional Court
Stop the interference of the executive branch in the criminal justice system and in criminal investigations related to corruption charges against senior State officials
Conduct an immediate, independent and effective investigation into cases of torture or ill-treatment in detention and take judicial measures to prevent such acts and prevent impunity, and ensure compensation for the victims
Step up efforts to investigate, prosecute and punish any act of discrimination or violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity and to adopt comprehensive legislation to prevent and punish such acts
Ensure the independence of the judiciary by amending legislation so that the appointment of the judiciary better respects the principles of independence and impartiality
Revise the structure and appointment process of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors (CPJ) to ensure appointments and promotions are based on objective criteria, and insulate the CPJ from executive interference
Pursue its zero-tolerance policy against torture and continue with measures to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of torture and ill-treatment
Strengthen efforts to ensure the effective investigation and prosecution of, and punishment for, all acts of torture and ill-treatment, and provide access to justice and rehabilitation to victims of torture
Improve freedom of assembly by repealing bans on peaceful gatherings, including those of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, as well as freedom of expression, by implementing article 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, which states that “criticism” cannot be criminalized, and by decriminalizing articles 216, 299 and 301 of the Penal Code
Ensure that the application of the anti-terrorism legislation and periods when exceptional states are declared do not diminish the capacity of citizens, including journalists, to exercise the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Ensure that the application of anti-terror legislation is fully consistent with Turkey’s human rights obligations and international standards, and ensure that those arrested on terror-related charges are afforded due process
Amend article 7 (2) of the Anti-Terrorism Law to ensure that only incitement to violence is prohibited. Align counter-terrorism laws with international human rights standards. End excessive prosecution of human rights defenders, journalists and civil society representatives under the pretext of fighting terrorism
Amend the anti-terrorism law to bring it into line with Turkey’s international commitments, in particular with regard to freedom of demonstration, expression and the press
Bring the Anti-Terrorism Law in line with international human rights standards and prevent the prosecution of journalists and human rights defenders for peacefully exercising their human rights
Ensure that anti-terrorism and defamation legislation do not interfere with freedom of opinion and expression to enable the work of journalists, artists, academics and human rights defenders
Review the Anti-terror Law and the Penal Code to bring them in line with the Turkish Constitution and article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Align anti-terrorism legislation and article 301 of the Criminal Code with international human rights standards, ensuring the protection of academic freedom and student rights
Reform article 7 (2) of the Anti-Terrorism Act and article 220 (8) of the Turkish Penal Code to address only incitement to imminent terrorist acts, and ensure that any restrictions on expressions of opinion are consistent with article 19 (3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Ensure the individuals’ right to freedom of expression, in particular through the revision of the legislation on counter-terrorism by narrowing the scope of the definition of terrorism
Use the judicial reform process to strengthen the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media, in particular by revising anti-terrorism legislation in conformity with international human rights norms and standards
Reform the Penal Code, including the law on counter-terrorism, to ensure respect for the freedoms of opinion and expression, online as well as offline, in full accordance with Turkey’s international obligations
Continue to ensure that its climate change and disaster risk reduction policies are gender-responsive and disability-inclusive, consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Promote measures against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which include, among other things, the conduct of investigations and, where appropriate, the punishment of perpetrators of acts of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
Guarantee the right to freedom of assembly and association, in particular through the elimination of the prohibition of events organized by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community
Consider including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex organizations and involve their civil society representatives within the Government’s decision-making processes
Condemn hate speech and hate crimes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals, effectively investigate and prosecute such cases and lift the ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex events and pride marches
Uphold the Law on Assemblies and Demonstrations to limit arbitrary restrictions on freedom of assembly, including on peaceful gatherings by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, women’s rights organizations, and opposition parties
Continue efforts made to revise the law establishing the Turkish national human rights institution to include the obligations of non- discrimination and equality
Continue to uphold the principles of gender equality in national legislation and policies and enhance the efforts to effectively implement it, especially in the areas of decision-making, employment, education and health, and ensure that all reports of gender-based violence are duly investigated
Continue to promote education for all people, including women and persons with disabilities, as well as lifelong learning to uphold justice, human rights and inclusiveness
Consider the early finalization of the National Human Rights Action Plan as a key fixture in the advancement of human rights, democratization and law enforcement in Turkey
Ensure the functional, structural and financial independence of the Human Rights and Equality Institution and guarantee that the appointment of its members is in full compliance with the Paris Principles
Establish independent mechanisms for reporting and investigation of allegations of unlawful detention, torture and inhumane treatment at the hands of police and security
Ensure the functional, structural and financial independence of the Human Rights Equality Institution and guarantee that the appointment of its members was in full compliance with the Paris Principles
Strengthen further the National Human Rights and Equality Institution to ensure its functional structure and financial independence, in accordance with the Paris Principles
Carry out further activities to protect and improve human rights, including through the mandate of the established Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey
Take effective measures to ensure that the new National Human Rights Action Plan fully embraces the recommendations accepted by Turkey in the universal periodic review
Take prompt measures to ensure compliance with international obligations under international human rights law, and to guarantee the full enjoyment of human rights to all without distinction, respect international standards for fair trial, amend laws restricting the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to peaceful assembly and association
Further strengthen national capacities in the promotion and protection of human rights, taking into account the concluding observations of the treaty bodies and the recommendations of the universal periodic review
Consider ratification of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and ratify Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child by establishing a presentation procedure and harmonize national legislation with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols
Promote measures that allow investigation, prosecution and sentencing of acts of enforced disappearance and consider signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
