News | Hafıza Merkezi

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…