Yilmaz Ensaroglu
Yilmaz Ensaroglu graduated from the Faculty of Theology of Ankara University. He was the Secretary General and then later the General Manager of Öz Gıda-İş Trade Union between 1978 and 1980. In 1992, he was elected as a member of the executive board of ‘the Association of Human Rights & Solidarity for Oppressed People’ (MAZLUMDER). Yilmaz was the Vice President, from 1993 to 1996, and then the President of MAZLUMDER from 1996 to 2004. He was a visiting fellow at Durham University (UK) during the 2005-2006 academic year where he conducted research on human rights and security. During the same period, he took part in TESEV’s (Istanbul) research group in reforming the security sector. Between 2007-2015, Yilmaz was the Director of Law and Human Rights Studies at the SETA Foundation in Ankara. While he has been actively working on human rights related issues since 1992, since 2010 he shifted his work and research focusing on peace and conflict resolution. In addition to his book titled ‘An incomplete value: Human rights’ (Turkish), Yilmaz has delivered public speeches and keynote speeches, and, presented and published many papers, articles, and book chapters on human rights, civil society, democratization, security sector reform, freedom of religion, secularism, the Kurdish question, hate crimes, peace, and conflict resolution. Yilmaz was also part of the Wise People Committee (Akil İnsanlar Heyeti) for the Southeast Region in 2013 as part of the Turkish Government’s ‘solution/peace process’ relating to the Kurdish issue.
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