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Joint statement originally published by PEN International. Turkish translation below. August 27, 2024 – PEN International joins the International Press Institute (IPI) and the undersigned freedom of the press and expression …
Yann Martel writes to Selahattin Demirtaş for the Day of Imprisoned Writer
The Turkish authorities should not charge Nobel laureate and PEN International Vice President Orhan Pamuk with “insulting Atatürk” and the Turkish flag, PEN International said today, as an investigation has been launched into his novel Nights of Plague
Arzu Yildiz is a Turkish journalist who has covered high profile murder cases and the illegal arms trade to Syria. She has worked as an editor and senior reporter in …
In the fall of 2019, PEN Canada collaborated with Ryerson’s Community Engaged Learning & Teaching (CELT) initiative and Literatures of Modernity graduate program in the Faculty of Arts to bring members of our Writers-in-Exile network into the classroom.