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Please kindly distribute this call to all women and transsexual women around you, in the way of the language uttered here…

Dear All,

Aslı Erdogan, one of the most important writers of today’s Turkish literature, was taken into custody on August 17, 2016 and has been imprisoned at Bakirkoy Closed Prison For Women since August 19.

Aslı Erdogan, whose books have been translated into 17 languages so far, who has won many important literature prizes both in Turkey and in Europe, who was elected to be one of the “future’s 50 writers” in an inquiry by the French Literatute Journal Lire to determine the writers that would mark 21st century, lately won Tucholsky prize presented by Swedish PEN while she was still in prison.

Being a female conscientious objector and an antimilitarist, Aslı Erdogan poetically analyzes violence to its historical, philosophical and psychological extents, never neglecting to emphasize its phallocentric dimention in her columns as well as in her stories, novels and essays. Object of her stories has always been an injured collective woman. She has told these through an intensely agonizing literary language as if making two skinned bodies touch each other.

Having studied ballet and worked at theatres as well, Aslı Erdogan once worked at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research as a physicist. She started to write and quitted physics in Brasil while she was working there on her academic career.

Though it is clearly stated in the Press Law within the Turkish Legal System that there is no legal and criminal provision, Aslı Erdogan was arrested with the claim of “aggravated life imprisonment” and the accusation for “disrupting the unity and integrity of the state” and “being a member of a terrorist organization” while being an “editorial consultant” in Kurdish newspaper “Ozgur Gundem” (Free Agenda), which is a symbolical title, and for four articles, one of which was published in Turkish literature journal Karakarga and three of which were published in Ozgur Gundem, despite the nonexistence of any rational evidence against her and any crime factors in accordance with the current Turkish legal system.

Despite her poor health condition, Aslı Erdogan is still kept in prison though no bill of indictment by prosecution has been ready and no claims have been filed. Her attorney’s petitions for her being on trial without arrest, are being rejected repeatedly.

What is being done to Erdogan is a crime against humanity; it is to judge the freedom of thought and expression as a human right according to both Turkish laws and international agreements to which Turkey is also a party.

“Women riddled in murders, lifted me up; we were squashed into a poky basement. We were all crying in our mother tongues…” from the play “Merhaba” by Asli Erdogan.

Women from all over the world will give voice increasingly in the internet by reading Asli’s sentences from her books in their native languages and Asli’s voice until her unjust suffering ends and Asli is free and her conscientious imprisonment is over. In her letter from the prison, Aslı Erdogan says “Not only freedom of thought, but conscience is also being judged”.

“Women riddled in murders, lifted me up; we were squashed into a poky basement. We were all crying in our mother tongues… My mother looked at my face at length and said ‘All the city’s women cry at some point at night without failure…” from the play “Merhaba” by Asli Erdogan

You can also give voice and expand her voice by reading one or two paragraphs from one of Asli’s books of your ion.

What you should do is only to hold one of Asli’s books and read one or two paragraphs that you choose, in your own language in front of a camera screen.

You can the campaign “I READ ASLI ERDOGAN” by sending this video recorded by any cameras or android cells to either Flying Broom Women’s Communication and Research Association (info@ucansupurge.org) or FilmMor International Travelling Women Film Festival and Cooperative (medya@filmmor.com), including your name, surname, the name of the book you have read and your occupation.

This campaign is open to all women and transsexual—women from all over the world, speaking any languages and from all occupations (writers, workers, unemployed, farmers, academicians, artists, lawyers, sex workers, social experts, actors, musicians, physicians, critics, businesswomen, sportswomen, etc.)

“We are angels fluttering on the very spot with our wings that can never open. We are standing so close to each other, one of us’ tears are running on the other’s face. What are we waiting for, as such a crowd?” – Asli Erdogan, from her book “Silence of Life”.

Asli Erdogan’s books were translated into 17 languages such as English, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Arabic, Albanian, Macedonian, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian and Armenian.

“We are, killed women of cities, are riddled by thin and transparent murders. We are crying for the blood running from our tongues, clenched, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, face to face in the basement of the languages built with the words generated for us for centuries. I am not praying for it to stop anymore in my own language. There is no need for it. As I am running from the toilet holes to drains, from drains to bushes, from bushes to pebbles, I realized that our mother tongues are just sound systems which are not divine or different from or superior to any other language when the male myth of the language becomes scant… I am a woman whose tongue was cut.” from the play “Merhaba” by Asli Erdogan

Best regards… By Film Mor / Uçan Süpürge

Biliyorsunuz, günümüz Türkçe edebiyatının en önemli isimlerinden Aslı Erdoğan bir süredir tutuklu. Kitapları 14 dile çevrilip 20’nin üzerinde ülkede basılan Aslı, şiddet karşıtı. Anti—militarist bir vicdani redci. Ve savcılık sevkinde hakkında “ağırlaştırılmış müebbet” istenen Aslı, edebiyatı dışında köşe yazılarında da fallosentrik boyutunu da vurgulayarak şiddeti masaya yatırmış. Her daim şiddet karşıtlığını savunmuş bir insan. Suç unsuru olduğu iddia edilen 3’ü Özgür Günden gazetesinde, 1’i Karakarga dergisinde yayınlanmış 4 yazısında da mevcut hukuka göre bile rasyonel bir suç unsuru yok. Yani mesnetsiz, keyfi, Aslı’nın dediği gibi “yargılanan sadece düşünce özgürlüğü değil, vicdan da”.

Haksız mağduriyeti son bulana, Aslı dışarı çıkana, hepimizin bu durumdaki vicdani içerideliğimiz son bulana kadar, KADINLAR Aslı’nın cümlelerini okuyarak internette çoğalarak SES VERECEK, Aslı’nın sesine katılacak.

Siz de Aslı’nın seçtiğiniz bir kitabından bir—iki paragraf okuyarak. Ses verip, Sesi çoğaltabilirsiniz.

Yapmanız gereken sadece Aslı’nın bir kitabını elinize alıp kameranın karşısına geçmek ve bu kitaptan seçtiğiniz bir—iki paragrafı okumak.

Video örneklerini şu linkte bulabilirsiniz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDMyak7aVS4LttkgCgXRkg

Okuduğunuz videonun sağ üst köşesinde Aslı’nın küçük bir resmi de olan “Aslı Erdoğan İçerideyse. Hiçbirimiz Dışarıda Değiliz” logosu bulunacak.
Altta ise sırasıyla
ASLI ERDOĞAN OKUYORUM
Yaşamın Sessizliğinde (bu örnek. Aslı’nın okuduğunuz kitabının ismi)
Ayşe Seyhan – temizlik işçisi (bu örnek. Kendi imsiziz ve mesleki kimliğiniz.. yazar. oyuncu, siyaset bilimci, seks işçisi, emekli, gazeteci, hukukçu, işsiz, sosyolog, tıp doktoru, mevsimlik tarım işçisi, sendikacı, sanayici, ilahiyatçı, terzi, antropolog, sunucu, şoför, film yönetmeni, sporcu, öğrenci, çitçi, çocuk bakıcısı, eleştirmen, eğitmen, kuaför, psikolog, dansçı, ev eksenli çalışan, eczacı, hademe, seks işçisi, sosyal hizmet uzmanı, psikolog vd..)

Bu çekimi aşağıdaki adreslerde yaptırabilirsiniz.

İstanbul:
FilmMor, İstiklal Cad. Bekar Sok. No 7/6 Beyoğlu
İrtibat: Tuğçe Yılmaz 0530 223 28 84

Ankara:
Uçan Süpürge, Büyükelçi Sok. No 20/6 Kavaklıdere
İrtibat: Selen Doğan 0533 265 08 91

Kendiniz çekip göndermek istiyorsanız ( kamera, fotoğraf makinası ya da cep telefonuyla –android—bile yapabilirsiniz —yatay ekran—), videoyu okuduğunuz kitabın ismini, kendi isminizi ve mesleki kimliğinizi de yazıp, Uçan Süpürge (info@ucansupurge.org) ya da FilmMor (medya@filmmor.com) adreslerinin birine göndermek (lütfen sadece birine gönderin, aynı işlem iki kere yapılmasın) kafi. Arkadaşlar videonuza formatı ekleyip, SESinizi internette Aslı’nın SESine ekleyecektir.

Aslı’nın Türkçe kitapları:
Kabuk Adam, Mucizevi Mandarin, Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent, Hayatın Sessizliğinde, Bir Yolculuk Ne Zaman Biter, Bir Delinin Güncesi, Bir Kez Daha, Taş Bina ve Diğerleri

Aslı’nın tercüme kitaplarının bir bölümü:

The City In Crimson Cloak, The Wooden Birds, The Captive (İngilizce); Je t’interpelle dans la nuit, Le Mandarin miraculeux, Le bâtiment de pierre, La Ville dont la cape est rouge, Les oiseaux de bois (Fransızca); Die Stadt mit der roten Pelerine, Der wundersame Mandarin (Almanca); Den mirakulöse mandarinen, Staden i den röda kappan, Stenbyggnaden (İsveççe); Steinbygningen, Byen med den røde kappa, Den mirakuløse mandarin (Norveççe); Il mandarino meraviglios (İtalyanca); Grad u crvenoj pelerini, Čudesnı Mandarın (Boşnakça); Shell—man (Bulgarca); ayrıca Arapça, Arnavutça, Makedonca, Kürtçe, Litvanca, Hollandaca, Çince, Indonezya dili, Ermenice, Galisyanca tercümeleri de mevcut.

Türkçe harici dillerde de okuyabiliyorsanız, ve bunların biri ya da birkaçı Aslı’nın kitaplarının tercüme edildiği dillerdeyse lütfen elinizde tercüme kitapla o dillerde de Aslı’nın kitaplarından bir—iki paragraf okuyun ve o dildeki bilgilerinizi ekleyip gönderin.

Sevgiyle kalın… By Film Mor / Uçan Süpürge