The third cycle meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission Universal Periodic Review Mechanism (UPR) was held on 12 December in Geneva. UPR previously met in 2010 and 2015. Thanks to the mechanism that examines the five-year period, NGOs and governments come together and the human rights registers of the governments are evaluated within the framework of the reports presented. Following the meetings, governments are presented with reports on the elimination of existing violations.

After 2015 according to reports and presentations made at the meeting of NGOs, UPR offered in 5 years, Turkey’s human rights violations to file further bloat. While UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on human rights violations in Turkey discussing the matter closely, the NGOs offered information that suprised everyone. While the Turkish government did not formally participated in the meeting, Turkish bureaucrats hid their names in the meeting room and took photos, causing reactions. In recent months, IAHRA Geneva President Ali Fırat submitted a report to the UN through UPR Info. In the report presented to Kronos, compared to 2015 the number of reports has increased at twice the world over Turkey in Geneva in the context of human rights violation reports hailing, he said.