CHP’li Çakırözer, tutuklu yazar ve gazetecileri ziyaret etti. Aslı Erdoğan’ın dört kez hastaneye götürüldüğünü belirten milletvekili, buna karşın doktor muayenesinden geçirilmediğini söyledi.
Some Turkish authors who are not in prison may well be wondering why not.
This country’s literary world has a proud tradition of enduring imprisonment and repression, but mainstream authors have enjoyed an odd, if partial, immunity to the crackdown by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a failed coup attempt this summer.
It is not that no authors are jailed: A prominent novelist and human-rights advocate, Asli Erdogan, is facing life in prison. And the thousands of books put out by 29 publishers aligned with the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Mr. Erdogan blamed for orchestrating the failed coup, have been withdrawn from bookstores, universities and schools and reduced to pulp.
Mitte August ist Asli Erdogan festgenommen worden. In einem Brief aus dem Gefängnis warnt die türkische Autorin, Europa unterschätze die Gefahren des totalen Verlusts der Demokratie in der Türkei.
Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan has been in jail since August 19 for alleged links to Kurdish militants. She has written an urgent plea for European leaders to speak out against current developments in Turkey.