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The Sevinç Özgüner Human Rights, Peace and Democracy Award has been granted to the Şenyaşar Family and Boğaziçi Resistance.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former Co-Chair of the HDP, has been granted the 2021 Weimar Human Rights Award on the grounds that he was “one of the most important opposition politicians in Turkey’s recent history.”

Receiving the prize, Anadolu Kültür Executive Director Asena Günal has said, “In trying times like these, such awards give the motivation to persevere, and make you feel that your efforts are worthwhile.”