Ayşe Berktay
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Berktay has published several of her own nonfiction works, namely on the Ottoman Empire and women's studies. She has also translated books on these topics as well.[3]
She been arrested twice under the Anti-Terror Law of Turkey, once in 2011 and again in 2016. The first time she was imprisoned for 2 years, 2 months, and 26 days before being released pending trial on 20 December 2013. The second time she was arrested on 9 August 2016 before being acquitted on 21 May 2019.[1][4][5]
Linguistic career[edit]
Berktay is a linguist because she believes that languages and translations have the power to change people's hearts. Berktay has noted that:[3]
Languages constitute the collective memory of humanity, of the world. An insistence on having a mother tongue live on is an insistence on having a people, humanity, and the world live on.
Berktay has translated several books. Larry Siems, the Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN International, has remarked that Berktay "She is committed through translation to bringing information and ideas across cultures."[3]
Publications[edit]
Original Books[edit]
- History and Society, New Perspectives. 2008.
- The Ottoman Empire and the World Around. 2007.
- Women and Men in the 75th Year of the Turkish Republic. 1998.
Translations[edit]
- The Imperial Harem: Gender and Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1520-1656. Leslie Penn Pierce. Princeton University. 1988.
- The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History). Donald Quataert. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PEN International (2019). "Case List 2019" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award". PEN America. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Ayşe Berktay". PEN America. 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Özgür Gündem davasında hapis cezası | DW | 21.05.2019". DW.COM (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ "Intellectuals Archives". Gagrule.net. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
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