UN — Report of the Working Group on the UPR — Türkiye

Gene­ral Assem­bly
Human Rights Coun­cil
60th ses­sion

Item 6  —  Uni­ver­sal Per­io­dic Review

Mr. Pre­sident,

During the debates last 6 May concer­ning the per­io­dic review of Tür­kiye, seve­ral States cal­led on the coun­try under review to take mea­sures to bet­ter res­pect the mino­ri­ties’ rights, who are sub­ject to dis­cri­mi­na­tion and even per­se­cu­tion by the Tur­kish autho­ri­ties.

Refer­ring to our writ­ten sta­te­ment A/HRC/60/NGO/78, we denounce the judi­cial harass­ment of Pinar Selek, a socio­lo­gist, femi­nist and human rights defen­der who is about to appear in court for the seventh time on trum­ped-up charges that have been contra­dic­ted by Tur­kish foren­sic police.

Refer­ring to our writ­ten sta­te­ment A/HRC/60/NGO/384, we recall that hun­dreds of acti­vists, lawyers, human rights defen­ders, poli­ti­cal lea­ders and elec­ted repre­sen­ta­tives of the Kur­dish mino­ri­ty are vic­tims of arbi­tra­ry deten­tion and we denounce the arbi­tra­ry arrests of Kur­dish mayors who are repla­ced admi­nis­tra­ti­ve­ly by civil ser­vants.

MRAP calls on the Tur­kish autho­ri­ties to seize the oppor­tu­ni­ty offe­red by the lea­der of the Kur­dis­tan Wor­kers » Par­ty (PKK), Abdul­lah Öca­lan, to engage in a pro­cess of paci­fi­ca­tion and inclu­sion that will pro­mote eco­no­mic deve­lop­ment and social peace in Tür­kiye.

I thank you for your atten­tion.

29th Sep­tem­ber 2025

Mouve­ment contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples