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Pınar Öğünç

Istanbul/Turkey — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellow 2019

Pınar Öğünç is a writer and journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She has worked as a reporter, editor, and columnist for several national newspapers and magazines in Turkey since 1997. At the moment she works as a freelance writer. She has published six books—two short-story collection, three non-fiction and one for children.

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Articles with and by Pınar Öğünç:

An interview series

They made us forget our own well-being

by Pınar Öğünç

Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.

An interview series

»I really can’t understand buying shoes while in quarantine«

by Pınar Öğünç

Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.

An interview series

»We have been through so much, Corona won’t make a difference!«

by Pınar Öğünç

Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.

An interview series

»I believe this is what’s truly immoral«

by Pınar Öğünç

Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.

An Interview series

»I’m not the one being sworn at, the system is«

by Pınar Öğünç

In the past weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.