This paper takes its starting point probable contribution of rights based approach and rights based journalism in context of construction of human rights culture and later frame fundamental principles of human rights based journalism in general. Considering undergraduate and graduate level journalism education in Turkey, it poses questions including: What are the main components as focus areas of journalism education in curricular level? What is the place of human rights education and courses in journalism curriculum? Answering these questions paper will discuss visibility or invisibility of human rights and rights based journalism education in Turkey and also journalism educators‟ approach to human rights based journalism.
