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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]
Murat 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]