Just published by Editions Liana Levi’s new book Pinar Selek, because they are Armenians, she said: “My book is a small token. But a cry too. »
April 2015 will mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. A black page in Turkish history, still controversial, still taboo. Pinar Selek, born in the 70s, offers a personal narrative, woven memories and encounters … With it, we earn from
within the meaning build reciting in school slogans proclaiming national superiority, studying lying on textbooks, cutting through a city where Armenian names were erased signs …
Committed sociologist, writer and Turkish activist Pinar Selek was accused of terrorism in 1998 because of his work on minorities (prostitutes, transvestites …), Kurdish militants, the army … who disturb power. She lives for over 16 years a true judicial harassment. Her feminist work, militarism continues in France, where she lived in exile since 2012. She is currently conducting research on space militant Turkish and Armenian diaspora movements at ENS Lyon.
Big Table Pinar Selek receives, sociologist, writer and Turkish activist in exile in France since 2011, author of several essays, a novel The House of the Bosphorus (Liana Levi, 2013), with a thesis on the emancipation movements Turkey. She is now a researcher attached to the ENS de Lyon and publishes Because they are Armenians (Editions Liana Levi, February 2015). With philosopher Michel Marian, working for many years on the issue of Armenia, member of the editorial board of the journal Esprit, contributor to magazine News from Armenia and co-author with Ahmet Insel Dialogue on Armenian taboo (Liana Levi, 2009).
Jean Eckian © armenews.com