News | Hafıza Merkezi

12.11.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (4): Justice, truth and the power of storytelling

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu Hafıza Merkezi has started to work on a new project called Justice Heals, to understand the unique dynamics and patterns of the Kurdish conflict and related…

7.11.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (3): Dealing with the past and building more just societies

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu Hafıza Merkezi has started to work on a new project called Justice Heals, to understand the unique dynamics and patterns of the Kurdish conflict and related…

Activities | 11.10.2024

Symposium on Restorative Justice Approaches to Conflicts and Human Rights Violations-Istanbul, November 15-16

In the framework of its Justice Heals project, Hafıza Merkezi will organize an international symposium titled “Restorative Justice Approaches to Conflicts and Human Rights Violations: Opportunities…

Artist Anıl Olcan, who is working on a micro-memorial for Turkey’s disappeared, is seen holding the negative of a photograph of Seyhan Doğan, one of the seven men who were forcibly disappeared in Dargeçit in 1995, up to the light.

Activities | 1.08.2024

Hold Still to have its world premiere at the 23rd DokuFest’s Truth Dox Competition

The international premiere of Hold Still, the long-feature documentary produced by Hafıza Merkezi, will take place in Prizren, Kosovo as part of the DokuFest International Documentary and Short…

Activities | 8.07.2024

Online panel to discuss our new research, “Law Changes, Oppression Remains: Turkey’s Counter-Terrorism Legislation since 1980”

Our new research, Law Changes, Oppression Remains: Turkey’s Counter-Terrorism Legislation since 1980 will be published very soon. Unfortunately, the publication will be available in…

Kolombiya, Meksika ve geçiş dönemi adaletinin dönüşümü

Articles and Translations | 15.06.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (2): Colombia, Mexico and the transformation of transitional justice

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu Hafıza Merkezi has started to work on a new project called Justice Heals, to understand the unique dynamics and patterns of the Kurdish conflict and related…

Articles and Translations | 30.05.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (4): Iran 3037

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuIran 3037 is a memory site built in the 1950s and located in a residential neighborhood of Santiago. It was used by the DINA (National Intelligence Department) between…

Adaletsizliğin yapısal boyutları ve onarıcı diyalog

Articles and Translations | 23.05.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (1): Structural dimensions of injustice and restorative dialogue

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu As Hafıza Merkezi, we are working on a new project called Justice Heals to understand the unique dynamics and patterns of the Kurdish conflict and related gross human…

Posters on the wall of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights during our visit in January 2024.

Articles and Translations | 20.05.2024

Museum of Memory and Human Rights (2): Museum as a learning space

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuThe Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH), our partner for the Connecting the Past to the Present project supported by the International Coalition of Sites of…

Hafıza ve İnsan Hakları Müzesi'nin girişi

Articles and Translations | 7.05.2024

Museum of Memory and Human Rights (1): Chile's national memory institution

Interview: Merve Bakdur and Noémi Lévy-AksuThe Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH) is the partner of our project Connecting Past to Present, supported by the International Coalition of Sites of…

Yapımcı Enis Köstepen, yönetmen Berke Baş ve jüri üyeleri sahnede.

Activities | 29.04.2024

Hold Still wins “Best Documentary” at the 43rd Istanbul Film Festival

Left to right: Producer Enis Köstepen, director Berke Baş, and jury members Berna Gençalp, Evrim Kaya, and Orhan Eskiköy. 28 April 2024. Photo by: Salih ÜstündağThe 43rd Istanbul Film Festival, held…

The memorial located in the Villa Grimaldi garden reads “El olvido está lleno de memoria / Oblivion is full of memory.”

Articles and Translations | 3.04.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (3): Villa Grimaldi

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLocated in the suburbs of Santiago, Villa Grimaldi is a large estate which was known as Cuartel Terranova and used as a place of detention, torture, and execution during…

Activities | 2.04.2024

Hold Still will compete in the 43rd Istanbul Film Festival

27 years and counting... Families whose sons and brothers disappeared at the hands of state forces in the Dargeçit district of Mardin in 1995 are fighting for truth and justice within the Turkish…

Articles and Translations | 27.03.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (2): Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLocated in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Casa Memoria Jose Domingo Cañas 1367 was known as Cuartel Ollagüe and was used as a center of detention, torture, and…

A woman protestor making a public statement with a speaker

Activities | 25.03.2024

We are partnering with European Implementation Network for the promotion of free speech

We are thrilled to announce our cooperation with the European Implementation Network (EIN) in their new project focused on safeguarding freedom of expression in the Council of Europe member States.…

this photograph from 1980 shows a banner reading “Aquí fueron torturados los 119 / 119 people were tortured here” hung on the building that was used as O’Higgins Institute for Military Research at the time.

Articles and Translations | 18.03.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (1): Londres 38

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLondres 38 was one of the memory sites we visited during our field visit to Santiago between 7-13 January 2024. Located in a central district of Santiago, the house was…

Different arpilleras are seen hanging, exhibited as part of an exhibition organized at the Memory and Human Rights Museum’s (MMDH) front yard in Santiago.

Articles and Translations | 6.03.2024

Embroidery as a political tool: The empowering role of arpilleras for Chilean women

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuMemorarte is a Chilean collective composed of women embroiderers [arpilleristas] who use traditional “arpillera” [embroidery] techniques to defend human rights. We had…

Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (MMDH)

Activities | 1.02.2024

Notes from the Field: Memory Sites of Santiago

Noémi Lévy-Aksu and Merve Bakdur from our Memory and Peace Studies Team conducted a field visit to Chilean capital Santiago between 7 and 13 January 2024. The visit was supported by the …

Crossing the Aegean podcast cover and mock-up image with an iPhone showing the trailer episode on Spotify.

Activities | 21.12.2023

New podcast series “Crossing the Aegean” traces the memory of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Hafıza Merkezi and the Legal Centre Lesvos, in collaboration with Community Peacemaker Teams, have joined forces to envision a transnational Aegean that opposes xenophobia, racism, and anti-migrant…

The cover of the publication Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac

Statements and Announcements | 12.10.2023

Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac 2022 now available in English

Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac 2022, takes the pulse of Turkey’s repressive climate against civil society in 2022. With this new format that we use, we aim to present the oppressive…