3–Immigration detention and Monitoring visits in Turkey The research visit to Turkey took place from 9-13 September 2018. The research team accompanied the Turkish National Preventive Mechanism - part of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (HREIT) - on monitoring visits to an immigration detention facility and a refugee camp[15]. Main research team activities: i) Held meetings with officials in the NPM, including the NPM coordinator and two assistant experts. They were joined by the HREIT’s head of international relations, whose team sometimes assisted the short-staffed NPM. ii) Accompanied a monitoring visit to Adana Sariçam Refugee Camp. The NPM concluded that the camp was not a place of detention and it is not further discussed in this report [16]. iii) Accompanied a monitoring visit to Gaziantep Immigration Removal Centre, carried out by the four HREIT staff mentioned above. iv) Held a group meeting with HREIT staff at their Ankara offices, followed by meeting with a senior HREIT manager and a member of the HREIT Board. Throughout the visit, we discussed professional issues and methods in formal and informal settings. Our agreed role was to observe the NPM’s work; in order to avoid confusion, we limited our interactions with detainees and avoided asking them, facility managers or staff direct questions. Instead, we referred questions to the coordinator or one of the assistant experts. If explicitly invited by the NPM to ask further questions, we did so, but the information below about the detention facility is based almost entirely on the NPM’s inquiries. The political context and background was discussed at length in our first report (Bhui, Bosworth and Fili 2018) and little had improved by the time of this second visit. 07 [15] See note 7. [16] See note 7.