The History of Human Rights in Turkey: The Changes in Discourse and Practices within Cycles of Politics (Research Brief)

The project involves the study of human rights discourse and practices in Turkey since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. It attempts to identify how domestic and international events shaped the human rights discourse and practices at various junctures, as the country vacillated between identity and class politics.

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Zehra Arat, of the State University of New York - Purchase College, was a 2003-04 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.