This year   2024   PEN TÜRKİYE   POETRY AWARD   is granted to  Turkish  poet Enis Batur for his   poetry,  for his cultural...

2 October: On 28 September 2023, Türkiye’s Court of Cassation upheld  a life sentence against publisher, civil and cultural rights...

The Turkish Publishers Association presents Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards to one author, one publishing house and to one...

Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Adıyaman, Adana, Osmaniye, Şanlıurfa, Hatay, İskenderun, Kilis, Elbistan,  are  bleeding and weeping…Turkey is  bleeding and weeping....

We strongly condemn the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini and the theocratic despotism in Iran. Secularity is vital. Without secularity,...

Six organizations sent an alarm to the Parliament (Grand National Assembly) of Türkiye

Dear Friends -PEN Int’l, Our Advocacy and...

The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TJA) has granted the 2022 Press Freedom Award to the 16 Kurdish journalists recently arrested in...

We are sad to have lost our member Mıgırdiç Margosyan, a leading writer and a dear friend. His works are...

‘You cannot get rid of our tongue’:

PEN Turkey Center has released a statement in the wake of musician Sezen...