{"id":256,"date":"2006-09-12T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-09-12T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T11:07:00","slug":"seyran-ates-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/seyran-ates-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Seyran Ates Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Sad to read in signandsight<\/span> that Seyran Ates<\/a>, lawyer, writer, and human rights activist has stopped her activism as a lawyer in Berlin after being physically attacked. Below, the opening paras of the article; you can read the full article by Mariam Lau (which first appeared in Die Welt<\/b> <\/i>on September 4, 2006) here<\/a>: <\/i><\/div>\n


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Stepping out of the fire<\/span><\/h1>\n

Having been violently attacked by the husband of one of her clients, Berlin lawyer and Islam critic Seyran Ates has closed her legal practice. A fighter for human rights resigns.<\/span>
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So she’s throwing in the towel. Seyran Ates<\/a>, lawyer, writer, and human rights activist was attacked at the beginning of June on her way from the court house in Berlin Kreuzberg to the underground station by the screaming husband of one of her clients. “You whore”, the man shouted. “What ideas have you been putting into my wife’s head?” No one intervened when Mehmet O. lashed out at Ates, her client and another woman.<\/p>\n

Now Ates (42) is facing the consequences. She has handed in her law licence and also her membership of the women’s rights organisation Terre de femmes<\/a>. “This acutely threatening situation has brought home to me once more how dangerous my work as a lawyer is, and how little protection I have had and have as an individual,” Ates explains.<\/p>\n

The “ideas” to which the jealous husband was referring form part of the biographical adventures that bind the writer Seyran Ates with her colleagues Necla Kelek<\/a>, Serap Cileli<\/b> (interview in English here<\/a>) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali<\/a>. Long before she used the term “feminism” to describe the thing that so preoccupied her, she had had an urge for freedom that was nothing less than a small miracle. Who can explain why of all the girls from Anatolia who headed off to the Eldorado of Germany<\/b> with their mothers and fathers, this one would decide to throw overboard everything she knew and had learned? Suddenly becoming appalled by things that had been utterly normal for generations \u2013 boys’ circumcision and wedding nights with blood-soaked sheets which were endured by all involved with fear and horror, beatings, sadistic excesses, forced marriages, humiliations and bad jokes<\/b>? How does individuality suddenly awaken out of a collective?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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