Zehra Doğan

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Zehra Doğan (2016)

Zehra Doğan (* 1989 in Diyarbakır , Turkey ) is a Kurdish artist and journalist. She gained worldwide fame because she was imprisoned for almost three years because of a picture she painted showing the Turkish military in the embattled Kurdish city of Nusaybin.

Journalistic activity

Zehra Doğan studied art at Dicle University in Diyarbakır. In 2010 she was a founding member of the women-led news agency JINHA . She worked for JINHA from 2010 until she was arrested in July 2016. JINHA was closed by Presidential Decree (Decree 675) on October 29, 2016 on the grounds that JINHA was an organization associated with terrorist groups and thus directed against the national security of the state. She reported from the cities of Cizre and Nusaybin , where curfews were imposed, as well as from Sinjar and Rojava and other conflict zones. She received the Metin Gölktepe Prize for her report on the Yazidis in Sinjar.

In prison she founded the newspaper Özgür Gündem Zindan with fellow prisoners

Trial and Detention

In July 2016, she was arrested in Mardin and taken into custody. She was charged with propaganda for a terrorist organization and membership in a terrorist organization. In December 2016, she was released pending the sentencing. In March 2017, she was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in prison for a picture she painted from a photograph of Nusaybin taken by the Turkish military during the state of emergency. On June 2, 2017, the judgment was upheld by the court of appeal. She started her sentence on June 12, 2017 and was initially detained in Diyarbakir Prison. During the detention, Doğan tried to be artistically active and creative and painted with all materials accessible to her, e.g. B. drinks, leftover food and menstrual blood, pictures on newspaper, etc.

After almost three years in prison, she was released from prison on February 24, 2019.

International solidarity

In August 2017, PEN International called for the release of Zehra Dogan.

Amnesty International Detmold also expressed solidarity with Zehra Dogan and organized an exhibition with her pictures.

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote a letter to Zehra Doğan on November 15, 2017, on "Day of the Imprisoned Writer".

The street artist Banksy painted an approx. 21 m long graffito on Houston Street in New York that shows Zehra Doğan behind bars and demanded her freedom. Above the graffiti is an almost equally large reproduction of Zehra Doğan's painting of the Kurdish town of Nusaybin, for which she was imprisoned.

Awards

  • Metin Göktepe Journalism Prize 2015
  • Freethinker Award 2017
  • Courage in Journalism Award from the International Womens Media Foundation 2018

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About Zehra | Zehra hakkında | Speaking of Zehra . In: Free Zehra Doğan • Zehra Doğan'a özgürlük . June 12, 2017 ( zehradogan.net [accessed July 9, 2018]).
  2. ^ Zehra Doğan - ARC. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ Turkish women tried to set up a feminist news agency. Authorities shut it down . In: The Independent . ( independent.co.uk [accessed July 9, 2018]).
  4. ↑ PEN International: PEN International - Promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation. July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION): EXTRACTS EMERGENCY DECREE LAWS Nos KHK / 668, 670, 671, 675, 677,679, 680, 683, 685, 685, 687th Council of Europe, February 20, 2017, accessed on March 3 , 2017 . May 2019 (English, wording of various emergency ordinances, including No. 675).
  6. ↑ a b Zehra Doğan - ARC. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  7. ↑ PEN International: PEN International - Promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation. July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  8. ↑ a b c Zehra Doğan | Amnesty International - Detmold Group (1602). Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ PEN International: PEN International - Promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation. July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  10. ↑ World Press Freedom Day: Jailed for a painting. BBC News, May 3, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  11. ^ Deutsche Welle: Rebellin with brush and pen , accessed on July 26, 2019
  12. ↑ Zehra Dogan. Die Welt, May 2, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 .
  13. ^ Turkey: Artist Zehra Doğan released from prison. Monopol Magazin, February 27, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  14. ↑ PEN International: PEN International - Promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation. July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 (American English).
  15. ↑ Exhibition | Amnesty International - Detmold Group (1602). Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
  16. ↑ PEN International: PEN International - Promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation. July 8, 2018, Retrieved July 9, 2018 (American English).
  17. ^ New Banksy Mural in New York Protests Turkish Artist's Imprisonment . ( nytimes.com [accessed July 9, 2018]).
  18. ↑ The 2017 Freethinker Prize goes to Masih Alinejad and Zehra Doğan . ( frei-haben.ch [accessed on July 10, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Courage in Journalism Awards - IWMF . ( iwmf.org [accessed July 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Dogan, Zehra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish artist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Diyarbakır