Impunity in Turkey Today
This report aims to provide an answer to the key questions addressed to the Turkey Tribunal about impunity.
Impunity in Turkey Today
These questions are:
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Is there an internal system of preventing and monitoring torture or mistreatment, and if yes, how does it function in reality?
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Is there an efficient system of sanctioning possible mistreatment or torture? Or can we speak of an organized impunity towards mistreatment and torture against people hold in detention?
The Turkey Tribunal (The Tribunal) is an Opinion Tribunal. It is neither a regular court subject to a State’s judicial system, nor a court established by a Treaty or an international organisation. It is a Tribunal established by civil society and serves as an instrument and platform to give recognition, visibility and a voice to people who allegedly suffer(ed) violations of their fundamental rights.
TurkeyTribunal 2021 Rapporteur
Intervention of the Rapporteur - Emre Turkut, Prof. Dr. Yves Haeck – Belgium
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The Witnesses
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Impunity in Turkey Today
Immunity may be caused or facilitated by many systematic factors, including the lack of appropriate legal mechanisms and the failure of states to react to, and investigate serious human rights violations. As used in this report, “serious human rights violations” encompass grave breaches of internationally protected human rights that are crimes under international law and/or that require States to penalise, such as torture, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution. Under international law, States are under an obligation to “combat impunity as a matter of justice for the victims, as a deterrent with respect to future human rights violations and in order to uphold the rule of law and public trust in the justice system.”
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The Turkey Tribunal (The Tribunal) is an Opinion Tribunal. It is neither a regular court subject to a State’s judicial system, nor a court established by a Treaty or an international organisation. It is a Tribunal established by civil society and serves as an instrument and platform to give recognition, visibility and a voice to people who allegedly suffer(ed) violations of their fundamental rights.
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