Yavuz Ekinci, a Kurdish writer, was awarded the Prize for Freedom of Thought and Expression by the Turkish Publishers Association on February 21, 2024. Publishers, writers and journalists came to honor him.
Freedom of Thought and Expression Award
Since 1995, the TPA has worked to promote the freedom to publish both in Turkey and worldwide. It is to this end that the TPA presents the annual “Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards”. By means of this award, the TPA seeks to show its support of writers and publishers in Turkey who are publicly known to be engaged in the struggle for these freedoms; to attract the attention of public opinion regarding this struggle; and to insist upon the legislative and political changes necessary to further freedom of thought and expression.
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