1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Turkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The United States values its longstanding alliance with the Republic of Turkey and its friendship with the people of Turkey, and seeks to promote their democratic aspirations. (2) Actions taken by the Government of Turkey in the aftermath of the attempted coup of July 2016 have significantly expanded the government’s crackdown on freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. Freedom House assessed Turkey to be not free in its Freedom in the World 2019 report. (3) Since July 2016, Turkish authorities have detained tens of thousands of people they accuse of aiding the coup attempt or being affiliated with a militant group, sweeping up journalists, opposition politicians, dissidents, and others. A two-year state of emergency restricted the exercise of fundamental freedoms, and laws and decrees then codified some provisions from the state of emergency. (4) The Ministry of Justice reported that, between July 2016 and July 2018, investigations have been opened into 612,347 persons alleged to be founders, executives, or members of armed organizations . A majority of these were reportedly detained, often with little due process or access to the evidence underlying the accusations against them. (5) By the end of 2018, according to the Department of State's 2018 Human Rights Report, authorities had dismissed or suspended more than 130,000 civil servants from their jobs, arrested or imprisoned more than 80,000 citizens, and closed more than 1,500 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on terrorism-related grounds since the coup attempt, primarily for alleged ties to cleric Fethullah Gulen and his movement, accused by the government of masterminding the coup attempt. (6) The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in its Opinion of August 16, 2019, found the Government of Turkey's detention of judges Melike Göksan and Mehmet Fatih