This study titled "Current Debates in Human Rights Law" was initiated as a scientific research project by Ankara Social Sciences University Public Law Department on 8 June 2018 and concluded on 08.02.2020.

Human rights law is primarily a local branch of law, as it is shaped within the historical, cultural, political, economic and social structure of each society. On the other hand, human rights law is universal in that it is a branch of international law and built upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War and other international human rights documents that came after it. All these documents were formed under the leadership of the European States and the social, cultural, political, economic and historical reality of Europe. In contrast, other civilizations' own social, cultural, geographical, political and economic realities were ignored. More than seventy years have passed since the announcement of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the concept of human rights in question was presented to the world as one reality.

Indeed, academic studies in the field of human rights law in Turkey are primarily implemented based on Turkish and European law, and developments outside this region are usually not taken into consideration.

These issues listed above have been the dynamics of starting this work.

The research has essentially progressed through two basic constructs;

First, current human rights law practice has been accepted as a basis, and within the framework of this acceptance, existing human rights problems and ongoing developments have been concentrated.

While its focus is human rights issues and arising problems mostly from contemporary human rights law practice; given the recent developments and the socio-economic and technological advancements of the era, the discussions in the areas that are expected to put another brick in the construction of fundamental rights and freedoms are concentrated. Since the common point of both issues can be joint in current debates in the field, the subject of the project has been named "current debates in the field of human rights".

The second construct on which the project is built is to turn the existing human rights concept into a research question. As stated above, in the face of the claim of the universality of human rights and the fact that it was built based in Europe, it was aimed to obtain data on the reflections of the concept of human rights in countries outside Europe in this seventy-year period.

The project has continued in two stages within the scope of these two constructions. In the first stage, researchers Res. Assist. Dilara Dönmezkuş and Res. Assist. Ezgi Fulya Akkuş participated in the 10th World Constitutional Law Congress held in Seoul between 18-22 June 2018 by the International Association Constitutional Law. The researchers then joined the summer school "Summer Course the European System of Human Rights Protection" hosted by European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) between 8-20 July 2018.

Project data was enriched by the fact that Dr Neyire Akpınarlı was a guest researcher at Stellenbosch University in South Africa between August and September 2019, and that Res. Assist. Ezgi Fulya Akkuş participated in the "Human Rights and Democracy" summer school held in Budapest in June 2019.

The second stage is to conduct an interview study consisting of 12 questions aiming to identify current human rights problems.

In this context, this web page has been prepared to present data obtained from the interviews to the benefit of researchers and practitioners working in the field of human rights and constitutional law.