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Activities | 6.09.2023

Timeless Crimes: Statute of Limitations and Human Rights

The history of the Republic of Turkey, as in many states with imperial pasts and nationalist ideologies, is characterized by distorted and covered-up realities, massacres, rights violations and…

Activities | 6.09.2023

Timeless Crimes: Statute of Limitations and Human Rights

The history of the Republic of Turkey, as in many states with imperial pasts and nationalist ideologies, is characterized by distorted and covered-up realities, massacres, rights violations and…

Statements and Announcements | 9.03.2023

Rule 9.2 submission from 33 NGOs and local bar associations on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Turkey

26 international and Türkiye-based non-governmental organizations, including Truth Justice Memory Center, and 7 bar associations in the country presented a Rule 9.2 communication regarding the…

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Activities | 26.01.2023

Spatial Memory of Divided and Conflict-affected Cities: Diyarbakir and Nicosia

Diyarbakir Suriçi (Walled City) and Nicosia are two cities that have been physically and discursively divided by mechanisms of repression and violence. As a collaborative endeavor of Hafiza Merkezi…

Activities | 15.12.2022

Online Workshop: Memorializing Conflict-Related Violations of Children and Youth Rights

Click here to register for the workshop.As Hafıza Merkezi, we are organizing an online workshop to discuss different experiences and approaches on memorializing conflict-related violations of…

Activities | 6.12.2022

New Report: Official Truth-Finding without Transitional Justice

Click here to read the report.Our new report Official Truth-Finding Without Transitional Justice: Commissions of Inquiry in Turkey is out. This is the fourth publication of a…

Activities | 18.05.2022

Report launch: Regional Kurdish Question in a Global World

Regional Kurdish Question in a Global World: Mentalities, Policies and Geopolitical Dynamics is the third publication of a series of analysis reports that we commissioned as the Truth Justice…

Activities | 16.02.2022

Our book “Talks on Memory and Arts 2020” now available in English

You can click here to download the book.Our book Talks on Memory and Arts 2020 is now available in English. The essays which constitute this volume are based on the Talks on…

Activities | 9.11.2021

Report Launch: As an Era Closes And a New One Begins: Cases on Disappearances in the 1990s

Click here to register the webinar.As Truth Justice Memory Center, we recently published a report that analyses impunity for serious violations of human rights of the 1990s, a key focus…

Articles and Translations | 13.08.2020

Galatasaray Square: A recognized memory space

30th of August is commemorated as the international day of the victims of enforced disappearances. The Saturday mothers who have been holding regular vigils for the forcibly disappeared were…

Articles and Translations | 11.08.2020

25 years after Srebrenica: Denial as the final stage of genocide

A genocide survivor prays near the graves of his father and two brothers at the memorial centre near Srebrenica. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Interview: Özgür Sevgi Göral 25 years have passed…

Activities | 9.03.2020

“Memorialize Turkey” website updated!

https://memorializeturkey.com/en/ Being a compilaton of memorialization projects in Turkey, Memorialize Turkey aims to start a dialogue around different forms, scopes and functions of…

Activities | 20.12.2011

Memorials, monuments and museums: Turkey and experiences from the world

Human rights organizations around the world are promoting the development of a diversity of memorialisation projects, such as the conversion of clandestine detention centers to “sites of memory,” and…