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Author awarded prize for portrayal of Turkish woman in Germany

Sep 12, 2009, 17:20 GMT

Mainz - German-Turkish author and sociologist Necla Kelek was awarded a 10,000-euro (14,600-dollar) prize on Saturday for her human rights work, which focuses on women of Turkish origin living in Germany. The panel awarding the Hildegard-von-Bingen Prize said Kelek reported in an 'engaged, keen and vivid manner on the value of human rights in Germany's pluralistic society' in her commentaries, newspaper articles, analyses and books. Kelek's prime focus was the living environment of wives, mothers and daughters of Turkish origin who often lived in the 'closed world of a traditional form of Islam,' the panel said. In 2005 Kelek's book 'The Foreign Bride' had launched a debate about forced marriages and the failed integration of Turks living in Germany. The prize, awarded for journalistic excellence, is named after a mystic and learned woman, Hildegard von Bingen, who lived from around 1098 to 1179.

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