From 20 to 29 September 2022, a delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visited Türkiye. The main objective of the visit was to examine the treatment and conditions of detention of foreign nationals detained under aliens’ legislation as well as the procedures applied to them in the context of their removal.
On the occasion of the visit, the delegation also went to Imralı F-type High-Security Prison, in order to examine the treatment and conditions of detention of all (four) prisoners currently held in the establishment. In this connection, particular attention was paid to the communal activities offered to the prisoners and their contacts with the outside world.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the Turkish authorities.
The delegation visited the following establishments where foreign nationals were being held:
- Edirne Removal Centre
- Gaziantep Removal Centre
- Istanbul-Silivri Removal Centre
- Istanbul-Tuzla Removal Centre
- Şehit Ozan Özen (Pendik) Branch of the Unit for the Fight against Migrant Smuggling of Istanbul Police Department
- Tuzla Branch of the Unit for the Fight against Migrant Smuggling of Istanbul Police Department
- Holding facilities in the transit zone of Istanbul Airport