45.274
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to consult non-Muslim minorities with a view to addressing the challenges faced by these minorities when electing members of their institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.271
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Elections
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.266
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote social inclusiveness by strengthening and implementing anti- discrimination laws, including for all religious and ethnic minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.265
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.264
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.185
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the introduction of civil service for conscientious objectors to military service
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider revising the current law according to which the right to conscientious objection to military service is a criminal act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reopen Halki Seminary to solve the problems its closing continues to cause
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Right to education
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Grant the Ecumenical Patriarchate legal personality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide the conditions for freedom of religion, in compliance with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to guarantee freedom of religion and belief, in law and in practice, particularly in the media
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an anti-discrimination law to prevent any type of discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdraw the reservation to article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- International instruments
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the rights of religious minorities, to enhance access to education in the language of minorities, to withdraw the reservation to article 27 of ICCPR regarding minorities and to ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the protection of all components of the right to freedom of religion or belief, as protected under the ICCPR, including by withdrawing its reservations to article 27 on minority rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- International instruments
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Grant the Ecumenical Patriarchate an adequate legal personality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow all religious or belief communities to train their religious instructors in accordance with their own dogma and traditions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recognize the right to conscientious objection and to offer a civilian alternative to military service
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt laws that recognize and guarantee the right to conscientious objection to military service, ensuring that any genuinely civilian alternative is not punitive in length
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt laws recognizing and regulating the right to conscientious objections and ensure that the civilian alternative to military service has no punitive or discriminatory effects
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation that increases protection of the rights of persons belonging to minority religious groups, including the status of their places of worship
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to actively prevent discrimination of minorities through enacting comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, including a prohibition on discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Overcome the continuous lack of legal personality for non-Muslim organized religious communities and to ensure the necessary respect for the beliefs of religious minorities, especially following the introduction of compulsory religious education in Turkish schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put an end to mandatory religion courses for the "Alevis"
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify its commitment to working constructively with religious and other minorities, to address their grievances, including those of Alevi groups and the status of cemevis
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation and take measures to prevent and combat discrimination on any grounds, including based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and religion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to prevent all forms of discrimination on the basis of ethnic, religious, sexual orientation or gender identity grounds
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the policy of return of the confiscated properties to the Armenians and other religious minorities, such as places of worship, including monasteries, church properties and religious and cultural sites through close consultations with their legal owners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019