Sel Yayıncılık

Sel Yayıncılık
Private
Industry Media
Founded 1990
Headquarters İstanbul, Turkey
Key people
Irfan Sancı
Website www.selyayincilik.com

Sel Yayıncılık (in Turkish: Sel Publishing) is an independent publishing company based in Istanbul, Turkey. It was established in 1990, and publishes both original Turkish books and translations of world literature, and both fiction and non-fiction.[1]

Sel and its publisher Irfan Sancı faced obscenity charges in 2011 for publishing William S. Burroughs' The Soft Machine. It had previously faced a number of other obscenity charges, including for publishing Guillaume Apollinaire's Adventures of the Young Don Juan, but been acquitted.[2][3] This acquittal was overturned by the Court of Cassation in August 2013.[4]

During the 2013 protests in Turkey, Sel helped launched the Gezi Park Library.[5]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sel, Sel Publishing
  2. 1 2 International Publishers Association, 10 October 2011, IPA Calls for Immediate Acquittal of Burroughs Turkish Publisher Sanci (Sel Publishing House)
  3. PEN International, 6 July 2012, Sara Whyatt, Deputy Director of the Writers in Prison Committee at PEN International writes about Obscenity Trials in Turkey
  4. Today's Zaman, 6 August 2013, Top court rescinds acquittals in book case
  5. Melville House, 5 June 2013, Turkish publishing houses unite in Gezi Park to distribute books

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