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‘You cannot get rid of our tongue’: PEN Turkey expresses support for Kabaş, Aksu

‘You cannot get rid of our tongue’: PEN Turkey expresses support for Kabaş, Aksu

PEN Turkey Center has released a statement in the wake of musician Sezen Aksu being targeted over the lyrics of a song and the arrest of journalist Sedef Kabaş for “insulting the President” with a proverb.

25 January 2022

PEN Turkey: Don’t put Orhan Pamuk on trial by inventing nonexistent crimes

PEN Turkey: Don’t put Orhan Pamuk on trial by inventing nonexistent crimes

PEN Turkey has criticized the investigation against Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk over his novel “Nights of Plague” for the second time: “Don’t put Orhan Pamuk on trial by inventing nonexistent crimes; don’t make Atatürk sad.”

11 November 2021

PEN Turkey grants Duygu Asena Women's Rights Award to Prof. Ayşe Buğra

PEN Turkey grants Duygu Asena Women's Rights Award to Prof. Ayşe Buğra

The writers' association has said that it has awarded Buğra because of her reactions after being targeted by the president over the Boğaziçi University protests.

22 February 2021

‘If a single writer or journalist is behind bars, none of us is free’

DAY OF THE IMPRISONED WRITER

‘If a single writer or journalist is behind bars, none of us is free’

On International Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN Turkey has created a "Prison Alphabet." PEN Turkey Chair Zeynep Oral says, “Numbers don't matter; if even a single journalist or writer is unjustly behind bars in a country, no writer or journalist is free."

16 November 2020

PEN Turkey Statement on Osman Kavala: Our Love Hurts, We Want Justice

PEN Turkey Statement on Osman Kavala: Our Love Hurts, We Want Justice

PEN Turkey Center has released a statement on the re-arrest of Osman Kavala. Quoting a poem by Turgut Uyar, the organization says, “I am losing my hope, I want justice, we want justice for Osman Kavala.”

21 February 2020

PEN: Turkey is Prison of Writers and Journalists

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE IMPRISONED WRITER

PEN: Turkey is Prison of Writers and Journalists

PEN Turkey Center and PEN International have released statements on the occasion of November 15 International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Among the five journalists whose cases are highlighted by the PEN this year is also Nedim Türfent.

14 November 2019

Journalism Organizations Denounce SETA Report on Journalists

Journalism Organizations Denounce SETA Report on Journalists

Professional journalism organizations held a joint press conference to denounce the SETA report on journalists. “If anything happens to a single colleague of ours, the SETA is to blame for”, the organizations have stated.

PEN Turkey: ‘We Find Imprisonment of 123 Journalists and Writers Unacceptable'

NOVEMBER 15 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE IMPRISONED WRITERS

PEN Turkey: ‘We Find Imprisonment of 123 Journalists and Writers Unacceptable'

PEN Turkey Center has held a press conference on the occasion of November 15 International Day of the Imprisoned Writers to attract attention to the imprisonment and difficult conditions of writers arrested for writing in Turkey and across the world.

15 November 2018 Hikmet Adal

PEN Turkey: Imprisonment of Journalists Cannot Be Accepted

PEN Turkey: Imprisonment of Journalists Cannot Be Accepted

On the occasion of November 15 International Day of the Imprisoned Writers, the worldwide association of writers PEN International has drawn attention to the imprisonment of journalists Shahidul Alam, Dawit Isaa, Wael Abbas and Oleg Sentsov.

12 November 2018

PEN Turkey to Speak on ‘Peace’ in September

PEN Turkey to Speak on ‘Peace’ in September

PEN Turkey will hold peace-themed panel discussions in İzmir, Ankara and Diyarbakır. Erendüz Atasü, Aslı Perker, Alper Akçam and Ahmet İnam are among the speakers to attend the panel discussions.

14 September 2018

The Harm of Harmful Publications

The Harm of Harmful Publications

International PEN and PEN Turkey held this year's "Freedom to the Word" Literature Festival in Istanbul last weekend. Publishers, writers and interpreters discussed the "Harm of Harmful Publications" and the function of the Board for Protection from Harmful Publications.

20 June 2011 Nilay Vardar