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Ayşe Nur Zarakolu

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Author and activist Ayşe Nur Zarakolu was the founder of the Freedom to Publish Commission and was a pioneering female figure in Türkiye's literary world. A political essayist herself, she was arrested over 30 times over the course of her lifetime for her writings on taboo subjects like the Armenian genocide and Kurdish rights. Zarakolu died in 2002, but faced posthumous legal charges for her writings.