The Turkish writer and sociologist Pinar Selek, born in 1971, presently a scholar in the Writers-in-Exile program of German P.E.N., is a passionate advocate for the rights of different kinds of minorities, such as socially disadvantaged children, but she also defends the civil rights of ethnic minorities like Kurds and Armenians.
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Each week we will feature an article, a cause, an event, or an organization that is as equally dedicated to celebrating freedom of expression and supporting persecuted poets and novelists worldwide. This article is an excerpt from Lucy Popescu’s Silenced Voices.
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