Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971) is a Turkish sociologist, feminist, and author. She is known for her work on the rights of vulnerable communities in Turkey, including women, the poor, street children, sexual minorities, and Kurdish communities. She is the author of several books published in Turkish, German, and French, and is one of the founding editors of Amargi, a Turkish feminist journal. She currently resides in France where she obtained academic exile from the universities in Strasbourg then Nice under the French PAUSE program, and later a permanent assistant professor position in sociology at Université Côte d'Azur. She became a French citizen in 2017.Selek has been prosecuted over a 15-year period in Turkey in connection to an explosion that occurred at the Spice Bazaar, Istanbul in 1998. Tried and acquitted of all charges on four occasions (in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014), her most recent acquittal was amended on June 21, 2022 by the Supreme Court of Turkey which reversed the acquittal and sentenced her to life in prison before the retrial. The retrial was set for March 31, 2023 then pushed back to September 29, 2023. Source: Wikipedia (en)