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Activities | 30.04.2018

Interview with Murat Çelikkan: "I stand on the shoulders of giants"

On the 13th of April our Co-Director Murat Çelikkan received the Civil Rights Defender’s Civil Right Defender of the Year 2018 Award in Stockholm. During the ceremony he was interviewed by Goran…

30.04.2018

Interview with Murat Çelikkan: “I stand on the shoulders of giants”

On the 13th of April our Co-Director Murat Çelikkan received the Civil Rights Defender’s Civil Right Defender of the Year 2018 Award in Stockholm. During the ceremony he was interviewed by Goran…

Statements and Announcements | 19.04.2018

Murat Çelikkan Received the Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2018 Award

Hafıza Merkezi Co-Director Murat Çelikkan  received the 2018 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award in a ceremony held in Stockholm on April 12, . Since 2013, Civil Rights Defenders annually…

Activities | 18.04.2018

We’re Expanding the Scope of Our Trial Monitoring Activities in 2018

You can access the Faili Belli website on http://failibelli.org/en[/caption] Since 2015, as Hafıza Merkezi we have been monitoring legal cases of grave violations of human rights committed in…

Activities | 18.04.2018

Enforced disappearances in the dictionary of relatives of the disappeared

[Photograph: An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera. / An image of a loved one which usually is carried by…

Activities | 2.04.2018

Community Discussion: Documenting the Disappeared

Hafıza Merkezi joined an online discussion on Documenting the Disappeared from 27 November to 8 December 2017. The discussion was part of a series of community discussions carried…

Statements and Announcements | 8.02.2018

Our Co-Director Murat Çelikkan Has Been Awarded The Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2018

Murat Çelikkan, Co-Director of Truth Justice Memory Center Our Co-Director Murat Çelikkan has been awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2018, by Stockholm based independent expert…

Statements and Announcements, Activities | 6.11.2017

Trial monitoring: Project ends, monitoring continues...

Ankara JİTEM Case, May 5, 2017, Artist: Bilge Emir[/caption] The project “Empowering Young Human Rights Defenders to Fight against Impunity” we’ve been implementing for the past 1.5 years has ended…

6.11.2017

Trial monitoring: Project ends, monitoring continues…

Ankara JİTEM Case, May 5, 2017, Artist: Bilge Emir The project “Empowering Young Human Rights Defenders to Fight against Impunity” we’ve been implementing for the past 1.5 years has ended as of…

Articles and Translations | 3.11.2017

Trying to talk about Tahir Elçi | Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Photograph: Emrah Gurel/AP Orhan Kemal Cengiz Lawyer, human rights activist Trying to talk about someone like Tahir Elçi, we all turn into blind people attempting to describe an elephant, as the…

Statements and Announcements | 3.11.2017

With respect to Tahir Elçi | Erkan Şenses

Tahir Elçi and his colleagues from bar associations in the region in a fact-finding mission on November 12th, 2015 Photograph: Diyarbakir Bar Association. Erken Şenses Batman Bar Association With…

Articles and Translations | 2.11.2017

2 years since Tahir Elçi left | Şiyar Kaymaz

Şiyar Kaymaz and other intervening parties to to the Lice Case are on their way to the first trial of the case to be held in the absence of Tahir Elçi.  Şiyar Kaymaz Lice Adalet Arıyor…

Statements and Announcements | 27.10.2017

Murat Çelikkan is back with us!

Murat Çelikkan was released on probation from Kırklareli Prison on October 21, Saturday. We are extremely happy to give you the good news that, after 68 days of imprisonment, our…

Activities | 2.10.2017

Activists from South gathered in Colombia

Group photograph of the participants of the workshop, Colombia, September 2017, Photo: Dejusticia Kerem Çiftçioğlu
 Truth Justice Memory Center (Hafıza Merkezi), Communications and Campaign Program…

Press, Articles and Translations | 21.09.2017

Murat Çelikkan: When dissent becomes crime

Yazan: Krizna Gomez, Dejusticia Published in: El Espectador 20 August 2017 This weekend he was supposed to come to Colombia, to a forum on human rights in Cali. Today the Turkish…

Press | 13.09.2017

Trump and Erdogan: Too much in common

  By Ariella Lang, Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University July 10, 2017 In President Trump’s recent meeting with Turkey’s President Erdogan, Trump said nothing about…

Statements and Announcements | 6.07.2017

Our colleague human rights defenders should be released immediately!

Human Rights Defenders Nalan Erkem, İlknur Üstün, İdil Eser, Özlem Dalkıran, Günal Kurşun, Veli Acu, Şeyhmuz Özbekli, Nejat Taştan, Ali Gharavi and Peter Steudtnermust be released immediately! In a…

Activities, Articles and Translations | 7.06.2017

Enforced disappearances and the Constitutional Court: An evaluation of the judgment on the Hasan Gülünay Case

Lawyer Melis Gebeş evaluated the Constitutional Court’s judgment dated 21 April 2016 on the case of Hasan Gülünay, who was forcefully disappeared on 20 July 1992. She stated that in its judgment, the…

16.05.2017

Hafiza Merkezi co-director Murat Celikkan’s defence in court: “Propaganda can Only be bad journalism”

In the Prosecution’s Bill of Indictment, I am being charged with “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization”, “encouragement to commit a crime ”, “praising a crime or a criminal” and in…

Statements and Announcements, Press | 16.05.2017

18 months prison sentence for Özgür Gündem defendant Çelikkan, 15 months for Üstün

  Bianet Summary judgement of human rights defender Murat Çelikkan and Professor Beyza Üstün, who had participated in the Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign, was heard today (May…