Arzu Toker

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Arzu Toker (born 1952) is a German-speaking writer, journalist, publicist and translator of Turkish descent.

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Biography

Toker was born in 1952 in Halfeti, Turkey. She emigrated to Germany in 1974, where she has lived ever since. She dedicates her life to enlightenment and to the development of individual freedom and personality. Today the focus of her work is on literary.

Arzu Toker studied social pedagogy and worked in a youth welfare office. She is committed to women´s and chidren´s rights and international solidarity and founded various initiatives (women´s initiatives, free nursery schools). She started and directed theatre projects with young people (among others in adolescent psychiatry). She was a founding member of the media foundation CIVIS and board member of the Foundation Heinrich Böll. For 12 years she was a member of the broadcasting council of WDR, 9 years of which as deputy chair of the program committee. Early 2007, she and Mina Ahadi were amongst the founders of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims, a German association that aims to represent people who have renounced Islam. [1]

Since her youth Arzu Toker is writing: poems, essays, short stories, plays, a novel, as well as journalistic texts for print and radio. She has written, translated and edited critical articles and books and gives talks about Islam. She is considered an expert on issues of Islamic and Western societies.

Awards

Together with Niki Eideneier, in 1998 Arzu Toker received the Turkish-Greek Abdi-İpekçi-Award for Peace and International understanding.

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Journalistic

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Radio and Television

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Recitations

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References

  1. Ahmet Olgun (18 May 2007). "Ex-moslims willen afzweren islam bespreekbaar maken". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. https://www.zvab.com/9783923728534/Kalimerhaba-Griechisch-Deutsch-T%C3%BCrkisches-Lesebuch-Dreisprachig-Desconocido-3923728530/plp
  3. https://www.notosplusbooks.gr/deu/product/...-die-Visionen-deiner-Liebeslust-Liebe-und-Erotik-in-der-Fremde
  4. https://www.alibri.de/Shop/Suchergebnis/productid/895?txtSearch=%E2%80%9EFrauen+sind+eure+%C3%84cker%E2%80%9C
  5. https://www.alibri.de/Shop/Produktdetail/ProductID/853?txtSearch=Kein+Schritt+zur%c3%bcck
  6. https://www.alibri.de/Shop/Suchergebnis/productid/1166
  7. Verlag: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt,1984, ISBN 10: 3499150336 / ISBN 13: 9783499150333
  8. https://www.emma.de/ausgabe/emma-ausgabe-juliaugust-1993-274417
  9. https://buch-schaden.at/produkt/was-heisst-denn-hier-fremd-thema-auslaenderfeindlichkeit-macht-und-verantwortung-der-medien/
  10. https://www.zvab.com/9783860991381/Verwaschen-verschwommen-Fremde-Frauenwelten-Medien-3860991388/plp
  11. https://www.freitag.de/autoren/arzu-toker
  12. Arzu Toker. "Zehn Gründe, aus dem Islam auszutreten" . Retrieved 15 February 2013.