Delegates at 83rd PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017. From left to right are: Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16) co-president...
Turkish Centre Board 2018-20
Photograph of the Executive Board of the Turkish Centre, 2018-20. From left to right back to front, with their corresponding positions for this term, are: Haydar Ergülen, Board member;...
Turkish Centre delegation at 82nd Congress
Photograph of Turkish Centre delegates at the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
Toni Morrison
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, member of the American Centre and vice-president of PEN International, on a flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by the...
Cover of Canımı Yakma!
Front cover of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the Turkish Centre with support from the...
Emine and Maside Ocak are awarded
Photograph of two members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers' - a group of human rights defenders - receiving the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award at a ceremony held...
2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award
Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre and members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers', onstage at the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was held at Tiyatro...
Tarık Günersel
Photograph of Tarık Günersel, Board member of PEN International (2010-12) and president of the Turkish Centre (2007-09), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo, Japan, which was held...
Cengiz Bektaş receieves 2018 Poetry Award
Photogaph of participants of a ceremony held in Istanbul on 21 March 2018, World Poetry Day, to award Cengiz Bektaş the Turkish Centre's 2018 PEN Poetry Award. From left...
Tülin Dursun and Dauji Gupta
Photograph of Tülin Dursun, on the right, general secretary of the Turkish Centre (2015-), and Dauji Gupta, president of the All-India Centre, on the left. This photograph was taken...
Panel at Diyarbakir Book Fair
Photograph of speakers at a panel event held during the TUYAP Fairs and Exhibitions Organisation's Diyarbakir Book Fair, which took place in Diyarbakir on 25-30 September 2018. This panel...
Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî
Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16), co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre. From left to right are: Zeynep Oral,...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer in Istanbul
Photograph of panellists at a conference organised for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2018 and held at Cezayir Toplantı Salonu'nda (Algeria Meeting Hall) in Istanbul. This...
2018 Duygu Asena Women’s Rights Award
Photograph of attendees of the 2018 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was hosted by the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul on 6 March 2018, two days before International Women's Day....
Peace Committee event in Ankara
Photograph of panellists who spoke at conferences held in the cities of Ankara, Diyarbakir and Izmir, which were organised by PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee under the leadership...
Seyhmus Diken with Ahmed Arif sculpture
Photograph of Seyhmus Diken, member of the Turkish Centre, standing beside the newly renovated sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ahmed Arif. This bust was destroyed in 2017 - and...
Shahriar Kabir visits the Turkish Centre
Photograph of members from the Turkish Centre with the Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist Shahriar Kabir, who visited Turkey in 2017. From left to right are: an...
Launch of Canımı Yakma!
Photograph of participants on stage at the launch of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the...
Peace Conference in Diyarbakır
Photograph of panellists at the PEN 2016 Peace Conference in Diyarbakır, which was held on 25 September 2016 in Turkish, Kurdish and English. From left to right are: Halil...
Turkish delegation in Ourense
Photograph of delegates at the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are: Tarık Günersel,...
Delegates in Ourense
Photograph of delegates between meetings during the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
Creative workshop led by Zeynep Aliye
Photograph of the participants of a creative writing workshop held in 2014 and led by Zeynep Aliye, treasurer of the Turkish Centre (2015-), who can be seen standing third...
5th PEN Ural-Altay Conference
Photograph of attendees of the 5th PEN Ural-Altay Solidarity Network Conference, which was held in Kyrgyzstan in July 2013 and titled "Language through Generations.... We Speak Who We Are"....
PEN International press conference in Istanbul
Photograph of PEN International delegates at a press conference held in Istanbul on 15 November 2012. From left to right are: Eugene Schoulgin, president of the Writers in Prison...
Sara Whyatt
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, PEN International’s programme director (1990-2013), interim executive director (2010-11), and deputy director (2011-2013). Whyatt headed PEN International’s freedom of expression programme for over twenty years,...
Copies of The Turkish PEN
Photograph of a selection of copies of The Turkish PEN, poetry anthologies published by the Turkish Centre. These anthologies were compiled, edited and translated into English by Suat Karantay,...
Suat Karantay
Photograph of the Turkish academic, translator and former general secretary of the Turkish Centre, Suat Karantay. Karantay compiled, edited and translated issues of the Turkish Centre's poetry anthologies The...
Halide Edip Adıvar
Photograph of the Turkish novelsist, political leader and womens rights campaigner Halide Edip Adıvar who founded the Turkish Centre in April 1950.
Logo designed by Sait Maden
Logo of the Turkish Centre. This logo was designed by the Turkish translator, poet, painter and graphic designer Sait Maden, who was the recipient of the Turkish Centre's 2011...