Ayşe Nur Zarakolu [SEP] date of birth
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu (née Sarısözen) (9 May 1946 – 28 January 2002) was a Turkish author, publisher and human rights advocate. She was co-founder, with her husband Ragıp Zarakolu, of notable Turkish publishing house Belge and, in the 1980s, became the director of book-distribution company Cemmay, the first woman in the nation to hold such a position. Zarakolu's publications brought her into frequent conflict with Turkish press laws; in 1997, "The New York Times" identified
Deniz Zarakolu
Deniz Zarakolu is the son of Turkish publishers and human-rights advocates Ayşe Nur Zarakolu and Ragıp Zarakolu. Shortly after his mother's funeral in 2002, Zarakolu was arrested for a speech he gave at the funeral. The charge, "inciting revenge or hatred, which could cause people to become dangerous for each other" was later dropped. In October 2011, Karakolu was arrested while a PhD student at Bilgi University in Istanbul. The official charge was "leadership of an armed organisation" and was in conjunction