Meral Şimşek is a Kurdish writer and poet. Legal pressures in Turkey, tied to her published work and the recognition it received, led her to leave the country. She has lived in exile in Germany since 2022. Her poems and stories often center on women’s lives and the realities of Kurdistan. Her writing has been translated into German, English and French, reaching a wider international audience.
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Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …
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Berlin Babel
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