2024 United Nations Human Rights Committee’s concluding observations on Türkiye
The UN Human Rights Committee released its concluding observations, CCPR/C/TUR/CO/2, on Türkiye’s second Periodic report, after a two days’ dialogue held on 23 and 24 October 2024.
The concluding observations of the Committee are a key document summarizing the civil and political rights’ situation over a country. The findings here reflect an overall deterioration of civil liberties and rule of law principles in the aftermath of the July 2016 Coup attempt.
From the lack of implementation of the Committee’s views, to the lack of independence of the NHRI, the discrimination of vulnerable groups, the disproportionate 2016-2018 emergency measures, the misuse of counter-terrorism measures and legal frameworks, violence against women and high femicide rates, corruption, enforced disappearances and extraterritorial abductions, torture and ill-treatment, overcrowded prisons and prolonged pretrial detentions, mass passport cancellation, collective expulsion of refugees, lack of judicial independence, crackdown on protests and closure of civil society organizations, targeting of human rights defenders and journalists, media censorship and internet restrictions, targeting of opposition parliamentarians and lack of electoral transparency, the topic of high concerns for the Committee were numerous.
Türkiye should provide follow-up information to the Committee by 2027 on key issues identified as priority by the Committee: paragraph 42, judicial independence, paragraph 44, right to a fair trial in proceedings relating to terrorism, and paragraph 62, on freedom of association.
