Sociologist and writer Pinar Selek has been a refugee in France since 2011. Delphine Minoui
Victim of an absurd trial, the Turkish sociologist will be tried again this Friday, for an attack that never took place.
Correspondent in Istanbul
She displays an infectious smile, both rebellious and joyful. “Powers need sad bodies, said Gilles Deleuze. So, me, I resist and I laugh“, insists Pinar Selek, as soon as she is asked about the judicial harassment to which she has been subjected in Turkey for twenty-five years – half of her life! Accused of “terrorism“, judged and acquitted four times, under the blow of an international arrest warrant, the sociologist and writer who has taken refuge in Paris since 2011 is however not at the end of her sentences: this Friday, March 31 will take place in Istanbul her fifth trial, at the end of which she faces life imprisonment. “She pays the price of a witch hunt orchestrated by the Turkish power“, is indignant Antoine Spire, president of the French Pen Club, during a support conference organized Wednesday, March 29 at the Parisian headquarters of the prestigious association. That day, a few hours before receiving the Vermeil medal awarded by the town hall…
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