The Austrian PEN Club and the city of Villach (Carinthia) have created the European Tolerance Award for Democracy and Human Rights. In 2018 the prize was awarded for the first time to the Turkish writer Dogan Akhanli, who lives in Cologne. “The award is a recognition for his humanistic attitude, his sincere treatment of historical
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Turkish-German writer and human rights activist Dogan Akhanli will open this year’s European Tolerance Talks on May 17, 2018 in Fresach. Last year, Akhanli was arrested in Spain on the grounds of a Turkish Interpol warrant and released only after weeks of federal intervention in Berlin. Akhanli will dedicate his speech on the theme “Longing
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This is the way to look at fates of people who are confronted with war. Leyla Imret left her Turkish hometown Cizre as a four-year-old girl, after her father had been shot under suspicion for the Kurdish PKK. Twenty years later, she returned from Germany and will be elected mayor by overwhelming majority in 2014.
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“Does freedom need democracy?” This is the title of a preview of the 2017 European Tolerance Talks organized by Club Carinthia together with PEN-Club Austria, Travel Industry Club and the international tax consultancy TPA on 18 January 2017 at BKS Bank in Vienna. The keynote statement is given by columnist Anneliese Rohrer, who has already
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