Yekta Uzunoğlu

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Yekta Uzunoğlu (2017)

Yekta Uzunoğlu (Kurdish: Yekta Geylani; born May 10, 1953 in Silvan , Turkey ) is a Turkish-German translator , doctor , author and entrepreneur .

Life

Uzunoğlu came to Czechoslovakia in 1972 at the age of 20 and studied at Charles University . He maintained contacts with dissident circles. His residence permit was not extended in 1979. With a grant from the Pasteur Institute , Uzunoğlu moved to France. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Uzunoğlu returned to Prague and worked, among other things, as an entrepreneur.

Uzunoğlu was also active as a Kurdish activist and also as a writer and translator. He is the author of translations of parts of the Bible and the works of Karel Čapek , Kurdish poetry and prose into Czech and Kurdish grammar into German. He has his permanent residence in the Czech Republic and has had German citizenship since 1996 .

Uzunoğlu is a member of the PEN -Club authors' association .

Judicial scandal

Criminal proceedings against Uzunoğlu were ongoing in the Czech Republic for over 13 years from 1994 on charges of kidnapping and torture. The process was criticized in public as inadequate. In March 2007 he was sentenced to two years suspended prison sentence. This was overturned by the next instance in July of the same year and Uzunoğlu acquitted.

Arrested in 2017 in Prague

Yekta Uzunoglu was arrested in Prague on April 28, 2017, but was released the next day. According to Uzunoglu himself, the Turkish embassy in Prague was behind the illegal actions of the Czech judiciary.

The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic found on February 13, 2018, published under the file reference: III. ÚS 1920/17 with the rapporteur Jan Filip CSc., States that the arrest of Yekta Uzunoglu on April 28, 2017 was unconstitutional.

Books

  • Yekta Uzunoglu: Láska u Kurdů; samizdat, 1976–1979,
  • Yekta Geylanî: Kurdish Alphabet, Yekta Geylanî, Bonn 1982
  • Yekta Geylanî: MEHDI ZANA MUST BE SAVED, Bonn 1982
  • Yekta Geylanî: The cultural genocide of the Kurds in Turkey, Yekta Geylanî, Bonn 1982
  • Yekta Geylanî: Kendal Nezan, Musîka Kurdî-Kurdosche Musik, Bonn, 1985,
  • Yekta Geylanî: Hey lê - bi kurdî binivîsîne. (write in Kurdish) Bonn:, 1985
  • Yekta Geylanî: Îsa Diçe Qudisê - Jesus in Jerusalem, Kurdish Institute, Bonn, 1986
  • Yekta Uzunoglu: Îsa can dide mirîya - Jesus conquers death, Bonn 1986
  • Yekta Uzunoglu: Yûnis - Jona, Bonn 1986
  • Yekta Geylanî; Thomas Bois: Kurdish Folk Poetry, Kurdish Institute, Bonn 1986
  • Yekta Geylanî; DN MacKenzie: Kurdish grammar, Kurdish Institute, Bonn 1986
  • Yekta Uzunoglu: Kurdská přísloví, Lidové noviny, Praha 1993
  • V.Klaus, I.Kočárník, K.Dyba, J.Zieleniec, J.Lux, Y. Uzunoglu: Ekonomické perspective ČR, Meridian, Praha 1993
  • Yekta Uzunoglu: A Kurd in the grinder of transition. A report from the Czech Republic, 2007
  • Yekta Uzunoglu: Výpověď, ("Testimony"), Akropolis, Praha 2008,
  • UZUNOGLU, Yekta. Islamistický trojský kůň v České republice. (Islamic Trojan Horse in the Czech Republic) Ostrava: Česká expedice, 2017. 118 p. ISBN 978-80-906487-2-2 .

Translations into Kurdish

  • Karel Čapek; RUR, The Mother, The White Disease, 1974
  • Molière: forced marriage, 1979
  • Yekta Geylanî: Lukas-Evangelium, Bonn, 1985
  • Yekta Geylanî: Markus Evangelium, Bonn, 1985
  • Yekta Geylanî: Genesis, Bonn 1987 Yekta Geylanî: Exodus, Bonn, 1987

Translations into Czech

  • Ahmed Arif; Hasretinden Prangalar eskittim- Touhou po tobě mi pouta zrezivěla-Before longing for you I stripped off convict chains, published by the Czech PEN Club, Prague, 2009

Web links

Commons : Yekta Uzunoğlu  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Legacy communist burdens in the Czech legal system? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 18, 2007.
  2. ↑ Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies , pages 203/4 (English)
  3. ↑ Czech Republic: Concerns about violation of the right to a fair trial in the Yekta Uzunoğlu case . Amnesty International, March 28, 2007.
  4. ↑ Uzunoglu nightmare trial: 13 years until acquittal . Radio Praha, August 11, 2007
  5. ↑ Břetislav Olšer - blog, Olser.cz "Blog Archive» Prohlášení MUDr. Yekta Uzunoglu, že od října 2014 je vystaven systematickému teroru ze strany některých příslušníků Policie ČR Praha-Venkov Jih… Accessed April 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Program jednání soudu - Ústavní soud. Retrieved April 27, 2018 (Czech).
  7. ↑ Knihovnička PENu a ČvT | Český PEN club - Český PEN club. March 20, 2016, archived from the original on March 28, 2016 ; accessed on April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Uzunoğlu, Yekta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geylani, Yekta (Kurdish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Silvan , Turkey