Pinar Selek

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Pinar Selek during a press conference in Strasbourg on January 25, 2013.
Pinar Selek and Günter Wallraff during a press conference in Strasbourg on January 25, 2013.

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

literature

Web links

Commons : Pınar Selek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pen-deutschland.de/de/themen/writers-in-exile/ehemalige-stipendiaten/pinar-selek/
  2. ↑ A bomb made out of books in: Telepolis of May 8, 2010
  3. ↑ Life imprisonment for Turkish author in: Focus Online from November 23, 2010
  4. ↑ The Selek case is reopened in: Zeit Online from November 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Further innocent in: faz.net of November 24, 2010
  6. ↑ Pinar Selek acquitted again in: Spiegel Online from February 9, 2011
  7. ↑ a b Exile author Selek sentenced to life imprisonment Spiegel Online, January 24, 2013
  8. ^ Outrage over the conviction of the sociologist Pinar Selek Hamburger Abendblatt, January 25, 2013
  9. ↑ Court overturns judgment against Selek. ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de, June 11, 2014
  10. ↑ Turkish peace activist Pinar Selek in taz.de from August 5, 2009
  11. ↑ April 2013
personal data
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