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Petition of PEN America Translation Committee: Free Turkish translator Necmiye Alpay
Petition of PEN America Translation Committee: Free Turkish translator Necmiye Alpay
3 Oct, 2016
Tags: Turkey

PEN America Translation Committee took the initiative for a petition to demand that Turkey release translator, writer and free speech defender Necmiye Alpay. Alpay has been unjustly imprisoned since her arrest on 31 August 2016.

For those of you who wish to sign the petition and/or share it with others, please click here (https://pen NULL.org/free-turkish-translator-necmiye-alpay).

Necmiye Alpay

Necmiye Alpay

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