Yet she has not been discouraged through all of it she has continued with her work and has not allowed her voice to be silenced.” The jury voted unanimously for Hilal Alkan, Günther added. She is a young scholar who is acting within an increasingly difficult political environment that cost her her academic position. explained the jury’s decision as follows: “Hilal Alkan is a wonderful choice to be honored with the inaugural Voltaire Prize. Chairman of the Jury and President of the University of Potsdam Professor Oliver Günther, Ph.D. After that, she came to Berlin where she has been doing research ever since. The prize went to the Turkish academic Hilal Alkan, who had signed a petition against the war in the Kurdish territories and denounced the actions committed by security forces against civilians. The University of Potsdam awarded the “Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences” for the first time on June 22, 2017.
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