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.