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Bernadette Somody, jury representative and Associate Professor at the @ELTE_Budapest Faculty of Law, speaks on behalf of the independent jury ahead of presenting the 2026 Ebru Timtik Award.
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The jury was moved by his uninterrupted, non-selective stance with the oppressed - Roma communities, LGBTI+ persons, refugees, the disadvantaged groups - and by how his struggle, though from a different country and tradition, meets Ebru Timtik's on the same ground. #ETAward2026
The 2026 IFTD Budapest Conference & Ebru Timtik Award Ceremony concludes, followed by refreshments. Thank you to our partners, speakers, and everyone who joined in Budapest and online. More on the IFTD: iftd.org/ #IFTD2026 #EbruTimtikAward2026
Recalling the state violence at Ebru Timtik's funeral in Istanbul (28 August 2020), "In the wake of loss" insists that public mourning is a fundamental human right - and inherently political.
In solidarity with all living under occupation and oppression.
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The IFTD & Ebru Timtik Award Steering Group thanks artist Sevinç Çalhanoğlu for "In the wake of loss," and Art Consultant Işın Önol (@IsinOnol) for connecting us each year with a vibrant global community of artists for the Award Artwork.
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The notebook draws on philosopher Judith Butler's essay "Violence, Mourning, Politics" (Precarious Life). Çalhanoğlu copied sentences from it by hand - a notebook made entirely of Butler's words, a meditation on how mourning transforms us.
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At its heart, a question from Butler - what makes a life grievable; whose lives are publicly recognised and mourned, and whose deaths stay invisible. The questions are left open, unmarked, as in the poem. Public mourning becomes an act of recognition.
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Joining the Session 2 panel: Chryssa Mela, Senior Legal Officer at @fairtrials, on the risk of abuse of trial waiver systems and the need for a regulatory framework, to ensure that cost-effiency does not come at the expense of fairness.
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The piece grew from thinking of the IFTD and the Ebru Timtik Award as a form of collective mourning - annual gatherings that refuse closure and carry Ebru Timtik's memory into the ongoing struggle for justice.
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Sevinç Çalhanoğlu presents this year's Ebru Timtik Award Artwork: "In the wake of loss" - two interconnected works, a handmade notebook on the politics of mourning and an accompanying poem, Grieflands.
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Now the moment many have gathered for: the Ebru Timtik Award Ceremony, honouring outstanding commitment & sacrifice in upholding the right to a fair trial in Hungary.
Moderated by Tríona Lenihan, @TheLawSociety.
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George Katrougalos, UN Independent Expert on a Democratic and Equitable International Order and former Foreign Minister of Greece [online], reflects on the global stakes of defending fair trial rights.
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Session 2 speakers: Dr Erzsébet Kadlót, Hungarian lawyer, former judge and chief advisor to the Constitutional Court; and Dr András Kádár, Co-Chair of the @hu_helsinki (Hungarian Helsinki Committee).
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Dr Kadlót on pre-trial detention practices in Hungary: a system where judicial oversight barely exists outside Budapest and the rights of the defence are at times restricted. Lack of access to documents and clients in detention, with Prosecutor's motions often of coercive nature.
