Pinar Selek
Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish publicist and sociologist who campaigns for the rights of minorities in her publications .
Life
Pınar Selek became known for his studies and work on discriminated groups such as transsexuals , street children and prostitutes . In 1998, after researching the PKK , she came under suspicion of terrorism. She was arrested at the time - on charges of propaganda work for the PKK and involvement in a bomb attack on the Egyptian bazaar in Istanbul - and claims to have been severely mistreated (torture by strappado and electric shocks ). After her release two and a half years later, she was acquitted in 2002 and 2006. To this day, it is controversial among court-appointed experts whether the explosion in the bazaar was actually a bomb or an accident with a gas container.
In November 2010 it was decided that the procedure had to be reopened. The prosecutor demanded life imprisonment. The first day of the trial on February 9, 2011 ended with another acquittal, which was overturned once more by the court of cassation .
On January 24, 2013, the 12th Chamber of Istanbul Serious Criminal Tribunal sentenced her to life imprisonment. Pınar Selek was not present when the verdict was announced. The writers' association PEN Center Germany spoke of an “unprecedented litigation farce”. The same judge who acquitted Pınar Selek three times has now confirmed the “definitive annulment of the acquittal”. The German author Günter Wallraff , who had come to the trial as an observer, commented that the verdict “no longer even gave the appearance of the rule of law”. In June 2014, the Ankara Supreme Court overturned the judgment against Selek for formal errors; the case was retried. In December 2014, she was also acquitted in these proceedings.
Selek lived temporarily in Berlin , where she was supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the PEN Center Germany. She is now studying political science at the University of Strasbourg and is working on her dissertation .
Pınar Selek is a daughter of the well-known left lawyer Alp Selek .
Works
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Cuddled into a man, drilled into a man: Male Identities , Orlanda, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-936937-73-2
- In Turkish: Sürüne Sürüne Erkek Olmak. Iletisim Yayinlari, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 975-05-0621-9
- Contribution in: Wilhelm Genazino ed., Istanbul. "Dying Beauty" between Orient and Occident? Series: Corso Folio. Corso-Groothuis-Lohfert, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 3-86260-021-1
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Halved hopes , Orlanda, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-936937-87-9
- In French: La Maison du Bosphore . Liana Levi, Paris 2013 ISBN 978-2-86746-669-4 .
- as an e-book in French: ISBN 978-2-86746-672-4
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Because they are Armenians , essay. Orlanda, Berlin 2015
- In French: Parce qu'ils sont arméniens . Liana Levi, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-86746-764-6
- as an e-book in French: ISBN 978-2-86746-759-2
literature
- Karen Krüger: They are all battered beings : The sociologist Pinar Selek wrote a book about the Turkish cult of masculinity and therefore had to flee the country. in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 10, 2010
Web links
- Literature by and about Pınar Selek in the catalog of the German National Library
- pinarselek.com
- Call for support for Pinar Selek in: PEN Center Germany
- French interview of Pinar Selek
- Boris Kálnoky: Turkey - Life sentence for sociologist after three acquittals. On welt.de on January 24, 2013. Last accessed on January 25, 2013.
- I feel great solidarity The sociologist and author Pinar Selek speaks with Hülya Köylü Schenk about her sentencing to life imprisonment in Turkey and the solidarity she experiences from parts of society.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pen-deutschland.de/de/themen/writers-in-exile/ehemalige-stipendiaten/pinar-selek/
- ↑ A bomb made out of books in: Telepolis of May 8, 2010
- ↑ Life imprisonment for Turkish author in: Focus Online from November 23, 2010
- ↑ The Selek case is reopened in: Zeit Online from November 24, 2010
- ↑ Further innocent in: faz.net of November 24, 2010
- ↑ Pinar Selek acquitted again in: Spiegel Online from February 9, 2011
- ↑ a b Exile author Selek sentenced to life imprisonment Spiegel Online, January 24, 2013
- ^ Outrage over the conviction of the sociologist Pinar Selek Hamburger Abendblatt, January 25, 2013
- ↑ Court overturns judgment against Selek. ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de, June 11, 2014
- ↑ Turkish peace activist Pinar Selek in taz.de from August 5, 2009
- ↑ April 2013
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Selek, Pınar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Selek, Pinar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish human rights activist, sociologist and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |