content tagged with jailed translators

Seeking Freedom For Translator Tonguç Ok

Seeking Freedom For Translator Tonguç Ok

Being imprisoned for 17 years, translator Ok was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment. A petition started for the court to release Ok. The signatories demand to abrogate TMK [Anti-Terror Act] article no.17 and change the criminal execution system.

8 July 2014 Elif Akgül

Jailed Translator Bridges Kurdish-English-Turkish, Receives Publishers Award

Jailed Translator Bridges Kurdish-English-Turkish, Receives Publishers Award

Tonguç Ok, a life sentence serving inmate in the Dev Yol case with 14 published translations, received this year’s Turkish Publishers Union Special Award.

6 June 2014 Elif Akgül