AyÅŸe Kulin

Ayşe Kulin ( * 1941 in Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist and writer.

Life

Ayse Kulin grew up in a family of civil servants of the Turkish elite. The father, Muhittin Kulin, was a Bosnian who Sitare mother Hanim, a Circassian, who was still committed to the traditional Ottoman Code of Conduct.

Kulin attended high school in Istanbul and studied at the American College for Girls in Istanbul Arnavutköy literature. During the first military coup on 27 May 1960, she became politically active as a young woman (see: Yassıada processes). Since the eighties Kulin works as an editor and reporter for various Turkish newspapers and magazines, as a producer for television, commercials and feature films. She has published over fifteen books, four of which have been translated into English. She received various Turkish literary prizes, so the 1996 Sait Faik - Prize for short stories. For her autobiographical novel Adı Aylin ( Aylin is your name ), she was elected to the Author of the Year by the University of Istanbul in 1997. In the novel, Bir Gün (One day) it focuses on the Kurdish issue in a woman friendship.

Since 2007, Kulin is honorary UNICEF ambassador.

Stance on the Armenian genocide

In an interview, Ayse Kulin stated that the genocide of the Armenians could not be compared to the Holocaust, as the Turks had had a reason for the " slaughter " of the Armenians and that such things could happen in times of war. Your statements promptly followed a petition by calling for a boycott of her books.

Work in German translation

• The narrow path. Translated from the Turkish by Angelika Gillitz - Acar and Angelika high. Afterword by Jens Peter Laut. Union Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-293-10018-3.
• As an editor with Rita Rosen: stone wall and open window. Stories of German and Turkish authors. Literaturca -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-935535-12-0.