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Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Orhan Kemal Cengiz was born in Izmir in 1968. He graduated from Ankara University Law School. In 1996, he served as the director of the Izmir Bar Association’s Human Rights Center.

From 1997 to 1998, he worked in London on cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights, and later co-founded of the Izmir Bar Association’s Anti-Torture Committee.

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Mr. Cengiz has represented religious minorities before Turkish courts and the European Court of Human Rights for many years. He founded the Turkey-based Human Rights Agenda Association and served as the association’s president from 2003 to 2012.

Mr. Cengiz sits on the Board of Directors of the Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation. In addition to his legal and advocacy work, he has been a regular columnist in many newspapers. He has also written and translated many books in the field of human rights, and is the author of the novel Umut Ağacı (Tree of Hope).

Selected publications by Mr.

Cengiz:

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