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Statements and Announcements | 8.01.2016

Urgent Call from Turkey's Human Rights Organizations to the International Community

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Articles and Translations | 7.01.2016

Turkey's New Ordinary Rule: Curfews

[caption id="attachment_4013" align="alignleft" width="1200"] Photo of damage in civilian house taken shortly after 5 days curfew in Mardin, Nusaybin, duringOctober.[/caption] Since August 16, 2015,…

Statements and Announcements | 29.12.2015

On World Human Rights Day We Ask: Where are the Disappeared?

On World Human Rights Day on December the 10, 2015, to draw attention to the policy of enforced disappearance, to put forth the truth concerning the disappeared and to reiterate our demand…

Statements and Announcements | 18.10.2015

THE ECHR's Ruling on Perinçek Does Not Invalidate Our Reasons for Becoming Intervening Party

For the attention of the press and the public In the hearing on 15 October 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights pronounced its final ruling on Perinçek v. Switzerland,…

18.10.2015

THE ECHR’s Ruling on Perinçek Does Not Invalidate Our Reasons for Becoming Intervening Party

For the attention of the press and the public In the hearing on 15 October 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights pronounced its final ruling on Perinçek v. Switzerland…

Statements and Announcements | 12.10.2015

Statements on Ankara Massacre from HDP, Amnesty Int'l and Human Rights Watch

Last Saturday on October 10th, a horrendous massacre took place as a result of the bomb attacks targeting civil society organisations, parties and individuals, who were in Ankara assembling…

12.10.2015

Statements on Ankara Massacre from HDP, Amnesty Int’l and Human Rights Watch

Last Saturday on October 10th, a horrendous massacre took place as a result of the bomb attacks targeting civil society organisations, parties and individuals, who were in Ankara assembling…

Statements and Announcements | 10.09.2015

Urgent Call for Cizre

This letter is to call attention to the alarming humanitarian situation in Cizre, a district of the Şırnak province in the southeast of Turkey, and to ask for your solidarity and support. As …

Articles and Translations | 4.09.2015

New State Policy Aims to Cover up Atrocities in 1990s!

Musa Çitil was acquitted of the charges for the extra judicial killing and/or enforced disappearance of 13 civilians in Mardin/Derik while he was the District Gendarmerie…

Activities | 31.07.2015

2015 Summer Training | Regional Network for Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past

The Regional Network on Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past (RNHDP) organized a week-long Summer School for civil society professionals, held on June 8-16, 2015, in Istanbul's Bogazici…

31.07.2015

Summer School on Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past

The Regional Network on Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past (RNHDP) organized a week-long Summer School for civil society professionals, held on June 8-16, 2015,…

Activities | 19.07.2015

Barış Süreci Kronolojisi

19.07.2015

Chronology of Peace Process in Turkey

You will find below a day by day chronology of the important events and statements related to the Peace Process, which officially commenced after the Newroz celebrations in 2013. The chronology will…

Activities | 26.06.2015

Truth Telling and Encounters: Dynamics in Sites of Dialogue

On 15-16 January 2015, the Truth, Justice and Memory Center organized a two-day closed workshop titled Hakikat ve Karşılaşmalar: Diyalog Mekânlarının Dinamiği // Truth Telling and…

Activities | 26.06.2015

2015 Summer Training | Regional Network for Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past

As part of the Regional Network for Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past (RNHDP), Hafiza Merkezi has organized a seven-days training program, in cooperation with…

Activities | 26.06.2015

Executive Summary - Unspoken Truth: Enforced Disappearances

The Turkish and English executive summary of the report “The Unspoken Truth: Enforced Disappearances” has been published. Written by Özgür Sevgi Göral, Ayhan Işık and Özlem Kaya, the 97-page report…

Articles and Translations | 26.06.2015

Who are the perpetrators in the Kızıltepe JİTEM case?

In the hearing held in Ankara on 3 March 2015 of the courtcase involving the murders committed by unknown perpetrators and enforced disappearances that took place in the Kızıltepe District of Mardin…

26.06.2015

Executive Summary – Unspoken Truth: Enforced Disappearances

Articles and Translations | 5.06.2015

Turkey in Pursuit of Peace: But What About Justice

by Caleb Lauer After Ilhan Bilir disappeared in 1992 his brother Ramazan started to look for him. Güllü Bilir, Ramazan’s wife, told researchers at the Istanbul-based Truth Justice Memory…

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21.05.2015

The Long Read: Where Are Turkey’s Missing?

Caleb Lauer*, The National Portraits rest in 200 people’s hands. In colour or black and white, they are the faces of men, some boys, some women, most with names, many with dates — 1994…