The prize was awarded to Erdoğan owing to the “new kind of authorship she has created and the language she used in order to tear down the prison of those little truths”.
Kapatılan Özgür Gündem gazetesinin Yayın Danışma Kurulu Üyesi ve yazar Aslı Erdoğan, 19 Ağustos’tan beri tutuklu.