Sevan Nişanyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sevan Nişanyan

Turkish author

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1956

Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey

Profession: writer, researcher, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sevan Nisanyan (Western Armenian: ????? ???????, born 21 December 1956) is a Turkish-Armenian linguist and travel writer. An author of a number of books ("The Wrong Republic", "The Etymological Dictionary" and others), Nisanyan was awarded the Ayse Nur Zarakolu Liberty Award of the Turkish Human Rights Association in 2004 for his contributions to greater freedom of speech. He is also known for his work to restore a semi-derelict village, Sirince, near Turkey’s Aegean coast.Sevan Nisanyan was handed a cumulative jail sentence of 16 years and 7 months for alleged building infractions after he criticized the government’s attempts to prohibit criticism of the prophet Muhammad, in a blog entry in September 2012.
However, he escaped prison in July 2017 and established in Athens, where he intends to apply for political asylum according to an interview he gave to the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique.
He currently lives in exile in Samos about which he has said "I am grateful to providence that the goatf***ers who run Turkey gave me, unintentionally, this splendid opportunity."