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Murat Çelikkan is a Turkish human rights defender and journalist. He is founder of some human rights organizations in Turkey: Human Rights Association, Amnesty International Turkey and Citizens Assembly and co-director of Hafıza Merkezi (Truth Justice Memory Center)[1]
He was awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2018, by Civil Rights Defenders.[2][3]
Education and work
editMurat Çelikkan graduated from Middle East Technical University. He is a recent alumnus of the Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program.[4] He took part in Editors in Chief on Watch campaign for the newspaper Özgür Gündem. For this he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in 2017.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Murat Celikkan convicted under false charges".
- ^ "Our Co-Director Murat Çelikkan Has Been Awarded The Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2018 - Hafıza Merkezi". hakikatadalethafiza.org. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ "2018 Civil Rights Advocate Award Goes to Murat Çelikkan". Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ "Leading Turkish human rights activist Murat Celikkan jailed – HISTORICAL JUSTICE AND MEMORY NETWORK". historicaldialogues.org. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ "Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Çelikkan Sent Off to Prison". Bianet. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- "Murat Çelikkan". Retrieved 14 April 2018.
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