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Ankara 22 October 2024
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Türkiye’s Human Rights and Equality Institution representatives enhance skills in immigration detention monitoring

Thirty-eight staff from the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Türkiye (HREIT) have improved their ability to monitor immigration detention places. This comes after a two-day training held in Ankara on 21-22 October. Organised as part of the European Union and Council of Europe’s joint action “Strengthening Human Rights Protection in the Context of Migration in Türkiye,” the training focused on ensuring that detention conditions meet international and European human rights standards.

In his opening remarks, Prof. Kılıç, President of HREIT, underscored the valuable co-operation between the Council of Europe and HREIT in these training efforts.

Mr William Massolin, Head of the Council of Europe Programme Office in Ankara, highlighted the essential role of effective monitoring in ensuring that detention conditions comply with international and European human rights standards, thereby safeguarding the dignity and humane treatment of individuals in immigration detention.

The training enhanced participants’ knowledge of both international and national legal frameworks concerning immigration detention. It also enabled them to develop their practical skills, including interview techniques, evidence collection, data gathering, and inspection documentation. Through interactive sessions and case studies, participants applied these techniques to real-world scenarios, improving their capacity to monitor and report on places of immigration detention.

This initiative aims to enhance the effectiveness of HREIT staff in their monitoring duties, contributing to a more humane and equitable immigration detention system.

The action “Strengthening the human rights protection in the context of migration in Türkiye”  is part of the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye”

Horizontal Facility III

The joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye” (Horizontal Facility III) is a co-operation initiative, running from 2023 until 2026. The programme covers actions in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkiye. It enables the Beneficiaries to meet their reform agendas in the fields of human rights, rule of law and democracy and to comply with European standards, which is also a priority for the EU enlargement process.

The envelope of this facility amounts to ca. 41 million EUR (85% funded by the EU, 15% by the CoE).

Find out more about the Horizontal Facility III programme >>

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.