Recently human rights has become a very  important issue in Turkey, as in other countries. The public and NGOs have greatly developed themselves in the field of human rights. As a result of this, public institutions are in great efforts to improve themselves for the prevention of human rights violations. In spite of being well-organized against the human rights violations, some problems  can still be seen concerning investigation of complaints and violation applications.

It has been considered that examining and evaluating the human rights violations in which the Gendarmerie personnel involved, finding people  responsible for the violations and taking these people to court shall be effective for the prevention of human rights violations.

The Gendarmerie Human Rights Violations' Investigation and Evaluation Center (JIHIDEM) has been founded  to investigate and evaluate complaints and applications about the allegations of  human rights violations taking place in the Gendarmerie area of responsibility or while carrying out the duties related to Gendarmerie. This is to investigate any allegation about human rights violation,  commence a judicial or administrative inspection in case that the allegations are true,  inform of applicants about the results or developments of the procedures and  ensure that the public will be notified about the current developments.

It has been JIHIDEM's aim to make our citizens sure and avoid the hesitations about allegations of human rights violations by directly getting in touch with the General Command of the Gendarmerie.