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Sevan Nişanyan
Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand
Journalists reflect on the false imprisonment of the Turkish-Armenian intellectual and activist.
Sevan Nişanyan
Over the course of the eleven years during which they lived and worked in Istanbul, journalists Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier witnessed firsthand evidence of over a century of denialist politics and Kemalist rhetoric in Turkey. In this video they reflect on the imprisonment of the Turkish-Armenian intellectual, journalist and activist Sevan Nişanyan, who was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to over 16 years in prison on charges of carrying out illegal construction. A Turkish citizen by birth, Nişanyan is an ardent critic of the increasingly repressive government of Turkey, and his arrest is seen by many as a political act that carries wider implications for the state’s policies towards political dissenters and minorities.
Produced by AGBU WebTalks in partnership with the Zoryan Institute.
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