What is Greta?

GRETA is the supervisory mechanism established under the convention, which is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Persons by the parties.
GRETA meets three times a year. GRETA visits, prepares and publishes country reports, assessing the legal and other measures taken by the Parties to enact the provisions of the Contract.
October 5-12, 2018, Greta published a report on Turkey, prepared on the basis of field work that Greta carried out in Turkey. dec. According to the report, Turkey cannot adequately identify trafficking victims and the courts “excessively" acquit them in trafficking cases. In addition, according to the report, Turkey is both a destination address and a transit country for human trafficking.
In Turkey, 50 ”trafficking victims" were identified in 2014, 108 in 2015, 181 in 2016, 303 in 2017 and 134 in 2018, and 621 percent of these victims are women and 170 are children.
These figures GRETA“ "to the authorities in the identification of victims, the lack of capacity lack of professional education in cooperation with NGOs, except for the lack of expert human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and girls, this goal was not given enough attention to," because that does not reflect the actual size of the phenomenon of human trafficking in Turkey it is telling. In addition, the report also mentioned the small number of shelters.