News | Hafıza Merkezi

19.05.2014

Impressions from Commemorative Cultures Study Tour to Germany

Gamze Hızlı, from Memory Center’s Memorialization Program, has participated in a 7-day “Commemorative Cultures Study Tour” in Germany, organized by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. She visited…

Statements and Announcements | 11.12.2013

Films About Conscience 2013 Short Film Projects

The Hrant Dink Foundation has initiated a Short Film Project “Films about Conscience”, inspired by Hrant Dink’s words “The voice of conscience has been sentenced to silence. Now, that conscience is…

Articles and Translations | 27.11.2013

Vukovar

Mario Mažić* Vukovar is a town in the far east of Croatia. Before the 1990s war, it was known as a multicultural, multiethnic community with around 46.000 citizens. It was also one of three…

Activities | 25.11.2013

Memorialize Turkey website is now open

This collection of information on memorial projects in Turkey highlights positive examples of memorialization among the many groups and individuals that have suffered harm or grievance over…

Articles and Translations | 25.11.2013

The significance of remembrance in transitional justice

Özgür Sevgi Göral In the past, discussions on ‘transitional justice’ in Turkey mostly revolved around the Kurdish issue that has a specific ethno-political nature. The perspective of transitional…

Activities | 25.11.2013

Bûka Baranê wins Special Mention award at Boston Turkish Festival

Bûka Baranê, The Children Chasing the Rainbow has been awarded Special Mention by the Jury in the documentary category at the 2013 Boston Turkish Festival’s Documentary and Short Film…

Activities | 21.11.2013

Workshop for a Regional Network on Reconciliation and Historical Dialogue

Hafiza Merkezi (Truth Justice Memory Center), in cooperation with Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, has been developing a regional network on historical dialogue…

Articles and Translations | 4.11.2013

Chance for Justice, 20 Years On: High-Ranking Officer Among Those on Trial for 1990s Disappearances

A trial scheduled to begin on November 5, 2013, is an important step towards justice for widespread state-perpetrated killings and disappearances of civilians in south-eastern Turkey during…

Press | 4.11.2013

Enforced disappearances

Emel Ataktürk On 30 August, the United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we invite Turkey to apologise to the victims for making its citizens forcibly…

Statements and Announcements | 30.09.2013

Call for Papers: Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence

Call for Papers: Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence Young Researchers Conference 25-27 April 2014, Istanbul Sabancı University, Karaköy Minerva Palace The application deadline is…

Articles and Translations | 25.09.2013

Mother Berfo's house will be turned into a cultural center

"Berfo Ana" (Mother Berfo), who had been struggling for years to find her son Cemil Kirbayir who was disappeared after being taken into custody on 13 September 1980, died seven months ago (aged 105)…

Articles and Translations | 24.09.2013

Judicial packages are not reforms, they are revisions'

Nilay Vardar The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) examined the judicial packages which brought arrangements to the field of jurisdiction from March 2011 until April 2013 and…

Press | 24.09.2013

Aggrevated life imprisonment for Ağar, Eken and Şahin

Türker Karapınar, a reporter for Milliyet daily newspaper, wrote an article on the indictment put together by The Chief Prosecutor of the Republic Mustafa Bilgili, regarding the investigation file…

Articles and Translations | 24.09.2013

Bones retreived from mass grave are at the forensic medicine unit

Beyza Kural Bones identified as belonging to almost 30 people, which were discovered at a construction site in Urfa’s Siverek district in the beginning of September, are currently at the Istanbul…

24.09.2013

‘Judicial packages are not reforms, they are revisions’

Nilay Vardar The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) examined the judicial packages which brought arrangements to the field of jurisdiction from March 2011 until April 2013 and…

Press | 23.09.2013

An eventful first hearing for the Ethem Sarısülük case

Oğuş wrote that the hearing was cancelled and postponed until 28th October, due to the dispute at the courthouse. The matter of debate was the attendance of a 100 people claimed to be plainclothes…

Articles and Translations | 23.09.2013

Confession regarding JITEM from retired General Aytaç Yalman

İsmail Saymaz During his questioning, Yalman acknowledged the existence of JITEM. He stated that while he was on active duty, he brought all units together in Ankara in order to investigate this…

Articles and Translations | 18.09.2013

Seyhan Dogan and his family were laid to rest together

Seyhan Dogan, who’s bones were retreived during the excavation works at the mass grave in Mardin’s Dargeçit District were laid to rest with his family today. Seyhan’s mother Asiye and father Ramazan’…

Articles and Translations | 17.09.2013

14 year old youngster's bones, who disappeared while under custody in Mardin, will be burried with his family

Seyhan Dogan, who disappeared while under custody in Mardin's Dargeçit District when he was 14 years old in 1995, and who's bones have been found during excavation works at the Bagözü Village will…

Articles and Translations | 17.09.2013