Center Manager
Prof. Dr. Ioanna Kuçuradi
She graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Philosophy in 1959. The year she graduated, Prof. She started working in this department as the assistant of Dr.Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu. She received his PhD degree in 1965 with his thesis titled "The Human Problem in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche". She worked at Atatürk University Faculty of Letters between 1965-68.
Kuçuradi, who was appointed to Hacettepe University in 1968, founded the Department of Philosophy in 1969 and served as the Head of the Department until her retirement in 2003. He became an associate professor in 1970 and a professor in 1978. Kuçuradi founded the Human Rights Research and Application Center at this university and started to run the Human Rights Master's and Doctorate Program within this Center. In 1983, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Organizations and served as the Secretary General of this Federation between 1988-1998 and its President between 1998-2003. She is currently the Honorary President of this Federation. Ioanna Kuçuradi, who holds a UNESCO chair in Philosophy and Human Rights, currently serves as the Director of Maltepe University's Human Rights Research and Application Center and Head of the Department of Human Rights. She has been a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty since 2010.
Center Staff
Prof. Dr. Bergen COŞKUN ÖZÜAYDIN
She graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration, Department of English Business Administration in 1998. She worked as a copywriter and dubbing artist, and as an actor at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres. She graduated from Maltepe University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which she entered with a scholarship in 2004, in 2008, completing the Philosophy and Psychology double major programs and graduating second in the faculty. He completed her Master's degree in Ethics and Applied Ethics at the same university, ranking first in her department. She completed her Philosophy Doctorate Program in 2015. Currently, she works as a lecturer at Maltepe University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, and teaches in the fields of Ethics, Human Philosophy, Human Rights, 20th Century Philosophy and Existentialism.
Res. See. Dr. E. Dilan KARA
In 2013, she graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations. She completed her master's degree at Maltepe University, Human Rights Department, Thesis Master's Program between 2014-2016. She completed Maltepe University Philosophy Doctorate Program in 2022. Since 2020, she has been working as a research assistant at Maltepe University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, and also works at Maltepe University Human Rights Center.
Specialist Elif N. HAMIDI
In 2004, she graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Department of Press and Publication. In 2018, she completed the Human Rights Master's Program at Maltepe University, Department of Human Rights. She is currently doing his doctorate in philosophy at the same university. Since her student years, she has worked as a reporter, editor and editor-in-chief in various media and has always continued to write. Her book reviews, interviews with authors, file topics and news he prepared were/are published in different media. She works as an Expert at Maltepe University Human Rights Research and Application Center and is among the Advisory Board Members of the Human Rights Department and the Human Rights Research and Application Center.