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Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent writes to Ai Weiwei, who has sent a postcard to Türfent as part of the PENWrites campaign . source: English PEN Kurdish poet, journalist, and Honorary Member of English PEN Nedim Türfent was arrested on 12 May 2016 after reporting on Turkish special police forces’ ill-treatment of Turkish and Kurdish …

The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global gathering of human rights and pro-democracy activists united in standing up to tyranny. Source: https://oslofreedomforum.com/   Talks and performances by: Marianne Borgen, Mayor of Oslo, Evgenia Kara-Murza, Project Manager, Free Russia Foundation Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine Omar Alshogre, Director of Detainee Affairs at …

Ballad of the Skeletons Gus Van Sant, 1996 (poem and performance by Allen Ginsberg)   Standard Oil Co. DJ Kadagian, 2004 (poem by Pablo Neruda)   1700% Mistaken for Muslim Masahiro Sugano, 2010 (poem and performance by Anida Yoeu Ali)   A Finger, Two Dots Then Me David and Daniel Holecheck, 2011 (poem by Derrick Brown)   Why I …

We reached out to esteemed writer Nermin Yıldırım for our new issue. She prepared a reading list for young writers with their reasons. “Let me point out that I won’t give examples from the classics. My young writer friends already know them. They might also know what I’m going to offer, but… I wanted to …

As İlkyaz, in our three year publishing life, we’ve been able to bring to light and unite over 300 young writers, reaching nearly 7thousand readers on average a month, translating our main pieces to English so the world has a window into young literature of Turkey. If you haven’t yet had a chance to read, …