Soirée Turquie en hommage à Ahmet Altan, avec Asli Erdogan

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).

https://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/soiree-turquie-en-hommage-a-ahmet-altan-avec-asli-erdogan/90623

31 Recent Works by Women Writers to Read for #WITMonth

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.

https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/31-recent-works-by-women-writers-to-read-for-witmonth-jessie

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.”

http://www.turkeypurge.com/exiled-novelist-asli-erdogan-turkey-has-a-fascist-regime-it-is-not-yet-1940s-germany-but-1930s