Une soirée se tiendra en hommage à Ahmet Altan, journaliste et romancier, incarcéré depuis septembre 2016 et condamné à la réclusion à perpétuité. Organisée par Les Nouveaux dissidents, elle réunira Asli Erdogan (écrivaine et journaliste), Aysegul Sert (journaliste, reporter au New York Times), Timour Muhidine (directeur de la collection « Lettres turques » chez Actes Sud).
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The Stone Building and Other Places by Aslı Erdoğan
Translated from the Turkish by Sevinç Türkkan
City Lights Publishers, 2017
The interconnected stories in Aslı Erdoğan’s collection feature a diverse cast of characters navigating illness, exile, trauma, and incarceration in contemporary Turkey.
Aslı Erdoğan: Türkiye 1930’ların Almanyası’na benziyor
Yazar Aslı Erdoğan Türkiye’nin Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yönetiminde ‘faşist rejime doğru kaydığını’ söyledi. Ülkede kurumların ‘tamamen çöktüğünü’ savunan Erdoğan, Türkiye’nin “1940’ların değilse de 1930’lardaki Almanya’ya benzediğini” kaydetti.
https://tr.euronews.com/2018/08/06/asli-erdogan-turkiye-1930-larin-almanya-sina-benziyor
Exiled novelist Aslı Erdoğan: Turkey has a fascist regime. It is not yet 1940s Germany, but 1930s
Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is on the wall: Her country is sliding into fascism.
Speaking to AFP, the award-winning author, still traumatized by the four months she spent in an İstanbul prison, warns that Turkey’s institutions are “in a state of total collapse.”

