@incollection{Calı, author = {{\c{C}}al{\i}, Ba{\c{s}}ak}, title = {Human Rights discourse and domestic Human Rights NGOs}, series = {Human Rights in Turkey}, booktitle = {Human Rights in Turkey}, editor = {Arat, Zehra F. Kabasakal}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, address = {Philadelphia}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {217 -- 232}, abstract = {Turkish domestic human rights organizations (HROs) have played a major role in developing a human rights discourse by using human rights as an interpretive framework to criticize, resist, and reform domestic political, social, and economic arrangements. This chapter contends that since 1986, domestic Turkish HROs have been major actors in the development of a domestically grown human rights perspective in Turkish politics. They have introduced framing issues as human rights issues and paved the way in fostering a culture of minimum guarantees and protections that any individual ought to enjoy within the Turkish political community.}, language = {en} }