Turkey and United Nations Human Rights Instruments
Most Recent Special Procedures’ Reports and Opinions
Reports
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on his mission to Turkey from 27 November to 2 December 2016
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on his mission to Turkey: comments by Turkey
- Report of Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression from 14 November 2016 to 18 November 2016
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression on his mission to Turkey: comments by Turkey
Opinions
Most Recent Concluding Observations
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities List of Issues in relation to the initial report of Turkey (2018) CRPD/C/TUR/Q/1
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Concluding observations (2016) CEDAW/C/TUR/CO/7
- Committee against Torture Concluding observations (2016) CAT/C/TUR/CO/4
- Committee on Migrant Workers Concluding observations (2016) CMW/C/TUR/CO/1
Press Releases and Statements
- Statement of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hami Aksoy, In Response to A Question Regarding the Statement of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Turkey
- Turkey must lift state of emergency restrictions for credible elections to take place
- Press Release of the Turkish MoFA Regarding the OHCHR Turkey Report published on 20 March 2018
- Turkey: UN Report details extensive human rights violations during protracted state of emergency
- Turkey: UN expert says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations
Turkey's Upcoming Reporting Obligations
- CCPR State party's report was due 31 Oct 2016
- CESCR State party's report was due 30 Jun 2016
- CRC State party's report was due 3 May 2017
- UPR 3rd cycle state party report is due on October 2019