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row prisoners, ill-treatment of migrant workers, trafficking in humans and domestic and
sexual violence.
The State party should compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the
implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions and convictions of persons guilty of torture and illtreatment, ill-treatment of migrant workers, death row prisoners, trafficking in
humans and domestic and sexual violence, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnicity and
type of crime, as well as on means for redress, including compensation and
rehabilitation, provided to the victims.
(28) The Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment as soon as possible.
(29) The Committee recommends that the State party consider making the declarations
envisaged under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention.
(30) The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights
treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely, the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
(31) The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the Committee’s concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
(32) The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year, follow-up
information in response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in paragraphs 9,
11, 16 and 19 of the present document.
(33) The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report in
accordance with its reporting guidelines and to observe the page limit of 40 pages for the
treaty-specific document. The Committee also invites the State party to submit a common
core document in accordance with the requirements of the common core document
contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights
treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6), approved by the Inter-Committee Meeting of the human rights
treaty bodies, and to observe the page limit of 80 pages for the common core document.
The treaty-specific document and the common core document together constitute the
reporting obligation of the State party under the Convention.
(34) The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be the second
periodic report, by 19 November 2014.
53.
Turkey
(1)
The Committee against Torture considered the third periodic report of Turkey
(CAT/C/TUR/3) at its 959th and 960th meetings, held on 3 and 4 November 2010
(CAT/C/SR.959 and 960), and adopted the following concluding observations and
recommendations at its 975th meeting (CAT/C/SR.975).
A.
Introduction
(2)
The Committee welcomes the submission of the third periodic report of Turkey but
regrets that it was submitted four years late, which hinders the Committee from ongoing
analysis of the implementation of the Convention.
(3)
The Committee also welcomes that the report was submitted in accordance with the
new optional reporting procedure of the Committee consisting of replies by the State party
to a list of issues prepared and transmitted by the Committee. The Committee expresses its
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