Turkey, Armenia & the Defence of Free Expression - 19 June 2008 - ICA, The Mall

Verso invites you to an event at the ICA to celebrate the publication of
My Grandmother by Fethiye Çetin

Turkey, Armenia and the Defence of Free Expression

Scars in Turkish-Armenian history remain far from healed. Visiting the ICA to discuss the situation in Turkey, and the place of Armenians, will be four figures closely involved with defending the threatened position of free expression there: Fethiye Çetin, author of My Grandmother (Verso 2008), which describes Çetin’s discovery of her Muslim grandmother’s true Armenian Christian identity, translator and writer Maureen Freely, Armenian writer and filmmaker Nouritza Matossian, and Ragip Zarakolu, one of Turkey’s best-known dissident publishers and winner of the 2008 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. The event will be chaired by Lisa Appignanesi, President of English PEN.

Thursday 19^th June, 7pm
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members
TO BOOK TICKETS VISIT www.ica.org.uk OR CALL 020 7930 3647

FETHIYE ÇETIN is a Turkish human-rights lawyer, who has represented among others Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007. My Grandmother, translated by Maureen Freely, is her first book. “A compelling and beautifully written account of family stories and secrets, and a heartfelt call to peace and harmony.” Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul

It is with the generous support of Amnesty International that Fethiye Çetin
and Ragip Zarakolu are able to take part in this event.

6 Meard Street, London W1 F 0EG, Tel 020 7437 3546, Email clara@verso.co.uk

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