Ragıp Zarakolu [SEP] place of birth
Ragıp Zarakolu
Ragıp Zarakolu (born 1948) is a Turkish human rights activist and publisher who has long faced legal harassment for publishing books on controversial subjects in Turkey, especially on minority and human rights in Turkey.
Biography.
Ragıp Zarakolu was born in 1948 on Büyükada close to Istanbul. At that time his father, Remzi Zarakolu, was the district governor on that island. Ragıp Zarakolu grew up with members of the Greek and Armenian minority in Turkey. In 1968 he began writing for "Ant" and "
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In February 2012 Zarakolu was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Swedish Parliament.
Awards for Ragıp and Ayşenur Zarakolu.
Ragıp Zarakolu was given the NOVIB/PEN Free Expression Award in 2003.
In October 1998 Ayşenur Zarakolu was honoured by the International Publishers Association with the International Freedom to Publish Award. She could not attend the ceremony at Frankfurt Book Fair since her passport had been confiscated.
In September 2008, the same organization awarded Ragıp Zarakolu the 2008 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize to