The Pre-Sessional Working Group to the 44th Session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), will meet between 25-28 May. The Group is due to prepare questions to put to Turkey regarding its implementation of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Different groups and ngos have submitted their observations to draw attention to the many areas where the Turkish government has failed to carry out its obligations under the ICESCR in upholding the rights of its Kurdish citizens. Among these, Turkey’s continued exclusion of Kurds from their official definition of ‘minority’ groups; institutionalised restrictions faced by Kurds in fields such as education and the use of the Kurdish language; and how restrictions on the media, trade unions and gender inequality have a disproportionately negative effect on Turkey’s Kurdish population.