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Statements and Announcements, Activities | 5.08.2026

The Youth Summer School for Peace: Young People Gathered in Ayvalık.

The Youth Summer School for Peace, organised by Hafıza Merkezi, took place at Fabrika! Ayvalık Art Workshop in Ayvalık from 5 to 9 July 2026. Bringing together 30 young participants, three experts,…

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 | 8.12.2022

Nominees for the Caring Workspaces Award have been announced

We completed the nomination and evaluation processes for the Caring Workspaces Award, which we run to encourage caring practices in our workspaces. We would like to thank everyone who participated…

Activities | 24.06.2022

Hrant Dink Foundation Festival of Co-Existence on July 2 – 3!

You are invited to the Festival of Co-Existence on July 2 – 3 2022, at Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center. Civil society organizations, rights defenders, activists, academics and students will be…

Activities | 18.05.2021

Who will Defend the Defenders in Turkey?

Click here to register. Who will Defend the Defenders in Turkey? Human rights belong to everyone. But those who work to ensure that we can claim our rights are increasingly harassed,…

Activities | 7.04.2021

City, Participation and Activism in Turkey and Brazil

In these unprecedented times, the Covid-19 pandemic is increasingly being used by many illiberal and autocratic countries as a justification to further restrict democratic space. Turkey is one of the…

Activities, Articles and Translations | 7.04.2021

Re-Opening Civic Spaces in Times of Covid-19

Activities | 7.04.2021

Lessons for Human Rights Defenders: “Shrinking Democratic Space and International Solidarity” Panel Series

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had reached the level of a global pandemic. While United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on…

Activities, Articles and Translations | 7.04.2021

Digital Rights at the Pendulum of Freedom and Oversight

Activities | 7.04.2021

Shrinking the space of LGBTI+ rights activism in Poland and Turkey

Panel görseli - City, Participation and Activities

Activities | 26.11.2020

Panel: City, Participation and Activism in Turkey and Brazil

Click here to register. The panel City, Participation and Activism will be held online on December 21, Monday at 16.00 (GMT+3). You may watch the live-stream in Turkish and…

Activities | 12.11.2020

Panel: LGBTI+ Rights in Turkey and Poland

Click here to register. The panel LGBTI+ Rights in Turkey and Poland will be held online on November 18, Wednesday at 16.00 (GMT+3). You may join the live-stream in Turkish…

Activities | 30.10.2020

Panel: Digital Rights at the Pendulum of Freedom and Oversight

To register, click here. The panel “Digital Rights at the Pendulum of Freedom and Oversight”, the second of the series “Shrinking Democratic Spaces and International Solidarity”, will be…

Activities | 8.10.2020

Panel: Re-Opening Civic Spaces in Times of Covid-19

Hafıza Merkezi, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights and Netherlands Helsinki Committee kick-start a panel-series titled “Shrinking Democratic Space and International…

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…

Articles and Translations | 11.08.2020

“Right wing politicians misrepresent the Istanbul Convention”

The banner says“Stop Istanbul (Convention) for Sovereign Croatia. Wikimedia Commons, Zagreb, March 2018. Interview: Banu Tuna During July and August, Turkey’s possible withdrawal from the Istanbul…

Statements and Announcements | 17.12.2019

Declaration by the Solidarity Network of Human Rights Defenders – Turkey

The Republic of Turkey, being party to international conventions, is obliged to protect fundamental rights and freedoms through its legislative, judicial and executive bodies. In cases where domestic…

Statements and Announcements | 19.03.2019

Call to Release Gönül Öztürkoğlu

Gönül Öztürkoğlu, a human rights defender and the president of the Malatya branch of İnsan Hakları Derneği (İHD – Human Rights Association), has been held in pre-trial detention in Turkey…

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…