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Turkish-Armenian writer and linguist (born 1956)

Sevan Nişanyan (Western Armenian: Սեւան Նշանեան; born 21 December 1956) is a Turkish-Armenian writer and lexicographer.^[1] Author of a number of books, Nişanyan was awarded the Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Liberty Award of the Turkish Human Rights Association in 2004 for his contributions to greater freedom of speech.

He is also known for his work to restore Şirince, a semi-derelict village near Turkey's Aegean coast.^[2]

Sevan Nişanyan was given a cumulative prison sentence of 16 years and 7 months for alleged building infractions, after he criticized the government’s attempts to prohibit the IslamicprophetMuhammad's criticism in a blog entry in September 2012.

He escaped from the prison in July 2017 and moved to Athens, where he intended to apply for political asylum, as stated in his interview to the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique.^[3] He subsequently went to live in exile in Samos, stating Sevan Nişanyan, Sentenced to a Turkish Prison: My Role HILO