Relationship Between Turkey's Human Rights Action Plan And Announcement Of Safe Countries

Recent development

Presidential Circular No. 2021/9 Regarding the Human Rights Action Plan ("Circular") is published in the Official Gazette on 30 April 2021. The action plan aims to expand the field of human rights and freedoms and to improve the standards of accessibility, accountability, fairness, transparency and equality in public services. Developments in the field of human rights and freedoms may also play a role in the announcement of safe countries for cross-border data transfers.

What does the Circular say?

With the action plan, the Circular envisages an effective human rights protection system for resolving human rights-related issues in practice. The implementation period for the action plan has been determined as two years; and various ministries and public institutions and organizations are responsible for the action items in the plan.