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Submissions
Official submissions, institutional communications and advocacy letters addressed to national and international authorities, human rights mechanisms and civil society organisations.
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Submissions and outcomes
Dispatch dates and latest developments in our institutional submissions.
UN mechanisms
Türkiye UPR contribution — UN Human Rights Council
Submitted: 07.09.2024
Paragraph 104 of OHCHR stakeholder summary A/HRC/WG.6/49/TUR/3 expressly cites SRL Swiss.
Türkiye shadow report — UN Human Rights Committee
Submitted: 16.09.2024
Submitted for Türkiye’s second periodic review; receipt acknowledged by email. The Committee’s concluding observations have been published.
Torture and ill-treatment report — UN Committee against Torture (CAT)
Submitted: 28.06.2024
Submitted by email and published on the UN website. Contact was made with the Secretariat; a closed meeting was held with Committee members and other civil society organisations.
Judicial independence and impartiality report — UN Committee against Torture (CAT)
Submitted: 28.06.2024
Submitted by email and published on the UN website. Contact was made with the Secretariat; a closed meeting was held with Committee members and other civil society organisations.
Swiss institutions
Yusuf Tarık Gül family — submission to FDFA, reply from SEM
Submitted: 26.04.2026
SEM’s reply of 18.05.2026 stated that asylum applications are carefully examined individually.
INTERPOL practices — SEM and INTERPOL General Secretariat
Submitted: 22.07.2025
SEM replied on 21.08.2025, stating that requests concerning people with protection status are carefully examined. No information on a reply from INTERPOL is available.
Proposal to contribute to refugee working groups — SEM
Submitted: 14.09.2024
The internal tracking record reports no reply. A dispatch document is available; no acknowledgement is recorded.
Sümercan family correspondence — Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Submitted: 26.07.2024
FDFA replied on 19.08.2024, noting the concerns and stating that it generally does not comment on staff of foreign diplomatic representations.
Notification concerning the ambassador’s 15 July remarks — Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Submitted: 21.07.2023
Submitted; no reply received.
Gaziantep operation and children of public servants dismissed by emergency decree — SEM
Submitted: 13.06.2025
Information letter sent.
Maydanoz Döner operation — SEM
Submitted: 04.03.2025
Information letter sent.
OSCE and ODIHR
Restructuring operations — OSCE/ODIHR
Submitted: 07.03.2026
Receipt acknowledged on 09.03.2026.
17–25 December proceedings report — OSCE Warsaw
Presented: 06.10.2026
Presented as a report at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.
Match-fixing case report — OSCE Warsaw
Presented: 06.10.2026
Presented as a report at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.
Why ECtHR judgments are not implemented report — OSCE Warsaw
Presented: 06.10.2026
Presented as a report at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.
Retrial report — OSCE Warsaw
Presented: 06.10.2026
Presented as a report at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.
Amnesty International
Amnesty headquarters — 2022/23 Türkiye report
Submitted: 08.05.2023
Submitted; no reply received.
Amnesty Türkiye — Yalçınkaya
Submitted: 31.10.2023
Submitted; no reply received.
Amnesty headquarters — Yalçınkaya
Submitted: 02.12.2023
Submitted; no reply received.
Amnesty headquarters — 2024 Türkiye report
Submitted: 10.05.2024
Submitted; no reply received.
Turkish Parliament
Grand National Assembly of Türkiye and the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission
Submitted: 19.09.2025
Information letter sent.