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The cover of the publication Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac

Statements and Announcements | 12.10.2023

Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac 2022 now available in English

Keep the Volume Up: Rights Defenders’ Almanac 2022, takes the pulse of Turkey’s repressive climate against civil society in 2022. With this new format that we use, we aim to present the oppressive…

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…

Activities | 12.05.2023

A fanzine by participants of the Youth and Human Rights Workshop: "Under the Wreckage of Justice"

Young people who participated in the Youth and Human Rights Workshop Program organized by Hafıza Merkezi at the end of 2022 have published a fanzine (in Turkish) in which they write about their…

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…

Statements and Announcements | 15.02.2023

It’s time to heal our wounds and enhance solidarity

We express our condolences and wish strength to those who lost their loved ones in the devastating earthquake that affected ten cities in Turkey on February 6. We also wish a quick recovery to those…

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Activities | 26.01.2023

Spatial Memory of Divided and Conflict-affected Cities: Diyarbakir and Nicosia

Diyarbakir Suriçi (Walled City) and Nicosia are two cities that have been physically and discursively divided by mechanisms of repression and violence. As a collaborative endeavor of Hafiza Merkezi…

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 | 6.12.2022

New Report: Official Truth-Finding without Transitional Justice

Click here to read the report.Our new report Official Truth-Finding Without Transitional Justice: Commissions of Inquiry in Turkey is out. This is the fourth publication of a…

Statements and Announcements, Activities | 27.10.2022

Call to young people: Let's defend the future together

Hafıza Merkezi is pleased to announce our new workshop program for young people. We are looking forward to receiving applications from prospective participants between the ages of 18 and 25 for the…

Activities | 25.10.2022

Research by KONDA and Hafıza Merkezi on young people's perception of human rights

Hafıza Merkezi and KONDA Research and Consultancy have published a new research on Young People's Perception of Human Rights (only available in Turkish). This research, conducted by KONDA for Hafıza…

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 | 18.05.2022

Report launch: Regional Kurdish Question in a Global World

Regional Kurdish Question in a Global World: Mentalities, Policies and Geopolitical Dynamics is the third publication of a series of analysis reports that we commissioned as the Truth Justice…

Statements and Announcements | 29.04.2022

Our statement on the unlawful verdict in Gezi Trial

Osman Kavala greets the courtroom once the SEGBIS video-link connection is secured. April 25, 2022. Illustration: Murat Başol Hafıza Merkezi stands in solidarity with the human rights and civil…

Statements and Announcements | 22.02.2022

Joint statement: Human rights advocacy cannot be put on trial

22 February 2022 – Ankara CourthouseWe are here to stand in solidarity with our dear friend Lawyer Öztürk Türkdoğan who has been the co-chair of Human Rights Association (HRA/İHD) for 15 years and…

Activities | 16.02.2022

Our book “Talks on Memory and Arts 2020” now available in English

You can click here to download the book.Our book Talks on Memory and Arts 2020 is now available in English. The essays which constitute this volume are based on the Talks on…

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…

Statements and Announcements | 13.09.2021

Joint Statement: Implementation of the ECtHR Judgement Must be Ensured, Osman Kavala Must be Released

Photo: Rupen Janbazian, 24 April 2015. Osman Kavala has been behind bars for 1413 days. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for overseeing the implementation…

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…