Pinar selek biography of alberta

Turkish sociologist, feminist, writer

Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971) is a Turkish sociologist, feminist, and author.^[1] She is known for her work on the rights of vulnerable communities in Turkey, including women, the poor, street children, sexual minorities, and Kurdish communities, and for the ensuing political persecution.

She is the author of several books published in Turkish, German, and French, and is one of the founding editors of Amargi, a Turkish feminist journal.^[2] She currently resides in France where she obtained academic exile in Strasbourg then Nice under the French PAUSE program.

She later obtained a permanent assistant professor position in sociology at Université Côte d'Azur,^[3] with the Migrations and Society Research Unit. She became a French citizen in 2017.^[4]

Selek has been prosecuted since 1998 in Turkey, in an affair which has attempted to tie her to an explosion that occurred at the Spice Baz