"IHOP believes that the human rights movement in Turkey, which comprises all individuals, groups, and NGOs that are carrying out activities and making efforts for bringing about respect for human rights and freedoms and promoting these rights at national and international levels, towards the purpose of the State’s fulfilling its fundamental obligations for protecting and expanding human rights and freedoms, and also conducting studies, research, observations, assessments, and work for the formation of public opinion for implementation of human rights and basic freedoms at legal and practical levels, plays an important role in bringing about implementation of the principle of the rule of law protecting and developing human rights and freedoms.
Under this framework, IHOP has defined its mission as one of strengthening the capacity of the human rights movement in Turkey, any and all cooperation between its elements, and its general impact.
In this framework, the mission of IHOP is defined as, empowering the capacity, components, general impact of the human rights movement in Turkey and the general impact of it.
IHOP believes that creation of open, transparent, and orderly environments, providing the means for the civil society and the organized segments of civil society to express their opinion in all areas of human rights to authorities in legislative and executive branches, and to exchange views with them, would play a high priority role in development and implementation of policies based on human rights and in development of participatory democracy."