Lyon City Hall wel­comes Pinar Selek, Hono­ra­ry Citi­zen of the City of Lyon, for the hea­ring of her 5th court trial. Pinar Selek has been char­ged by the Tur­kish judi­cia­ry since 1998 for her research on the Kurds. The after­noon will alter­nate bet­ween remote moni­to­ring of her trial, speeches and artis­tic inter­ven­tions. ENS de Lyon En savoir plus sur­Lyon City Hall wel­comes Pinar Selek, Hono­ra­ry Citi­zen of the City of Lyon[…]

1998 – Arrest Pinar Selek is ques­tio­ned about her research on the Kur­dish issue. She is impri­so­ned for her alle­ged invol­ve­ment with the PKK and is tor­tu­red for refu­sing to dis­close the names of her Kur­dish contacts. While in pri­son, she learns on TV that she is char­ged with ter­ro­rist acti­vi­ty fol­lo­wing a recent explo­sion En savoir plus surThe major events in the trial of Pinar Selek, femi­nist and anti-mili­ta­rist acti­vist[…]

The tra­gic ear­th­quake that has just struck Tur­key once again high­lights the repres­sive nature of the regime and the muzz­ling of fun­da­men­tal free­doms. The col­lec­tives in soli­da­ri­ty with Pinar Selek express their full soli­da­ri­ty with all the people affec­ted by this disas­ter. They stron­gly denounce the Tur­kish state which, in order to conso­li­date its autho­ri­ta­rian En savoir plus surThe tra­ge­dy that has struck Tur­key is also the pro­duct of an autho­ri­ta­rian poli­cy[…]

Fran­­co-Tur­­kish resear­cher and acti­vist Pinar Selek, who has been living in exile since 2009, has come under rene­wed attack from Tur­key. Soli­da­ri­ty com­mit­tees are mobi­li­sing to sup­port her and are cal­ling on the French govern­ment to back her. The Tur­kish state is conti­nuing its per­se­cu­tion of Pinar Selek, a socio­lo­gist and wri­ter, envi­ron­men­ta­list, femi­nist and En savoir plus sur­Sen­ten­cing of Pinar Selek : call for soli­da­ri­ty for her and « all the vic­tims of the Tur­kish autho­ri­ties ».[…]