Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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author, publisher, human rights activist
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Place of Birth: Antakya, Turkey
About Ayşe Nur Zarakolu
- Ayse Nur Zarakolu (née Sarisözen) (9 May 1946 – 28 January 2002) was a Turkish author, publisher and human rights advocate.
- She was co-founder, with her husband Ragip Zarakolu, of notable Turkish publishing house Belge and, in the 1980s, became the director of book-distribution company Cemmay, the first woman in the nation to hold such a position.
- Zarakolu's publications brought her into frequent conflict with Turkish press laws; in 1997, The New York Times identified Zarakolu as "one of the most relentless challengers to Turkey's press laws".
- Issues Zarakolu helped publicize in Turkey include the Armenian Genocide and human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey.
- Imprisoned multiple times for her publications, she was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and her legacy continued to face legal challenge in Turkey after her death.
- She has received multiple awards and honors for her work and the Human Rights Association of Turkey (Turkish: Insan Haklari Dernegi IHD) bestows the Ayse Zarakolu Freedom of Thought prize in her honor.
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