Award-winning Turkish writer free to travel again

Multiple award-winning Turkish author Asli Erdogan is no longer trapped in her native Turkey.

Erdogan, who has a large Turkish readership, has also become internationally renowned after her arrest in August 2016 in Istanbul where she spent four months in prison in a post-coup purge. Even after her release in December 2016, her passport was seized and a travel ban issued because she’s still not cleared of “terror” charges. She has no relation to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-10/award-winning-turkish-writer-free-travel-again

Asli Erdogan und Deniz Yücel mit Leipziger Medienpreis ausgezeichnet

Die türkische Schriftstellerin Asli Erdogan und der in der Türkei inhaftierte deutsch-türkische Journalist Deniz Yücel haben am Freitag in Leipzig den „Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien“ erhalten. „Gefängnis ist wie Krieg“, sagte Erdogan, die im vergangenen Jahr fast fünf Monate inhaftiert war.

https://www.lvz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Asli-Erdogan-und-Deniz-Yuecel-erhalten-den-Leipziger-Medienpreis