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Zeynep Altıok Akatlı (born 1968, Ankara, Turkey) studied Social Anthropology at Istanbul University. After graduation, she worked for many years in advertising, and has worked as a Communication Consultant for politicians and artists since 2013. Alongside this career, Altıok Akatlı holds the position of Acting Party Chairperson for Culture and Art for the Republican People's Party (CHP). Zeynep Altıok is primarily engaged with projects that support the cultural and artistic activities of women.
In 1993, her father Metin Altıok was killed in the Sivas Massacre. To prevent this event from falling into oblivion, she has written numerous crticial texts about the attempts to cover it up by the Turkish government. In 2011, these articles were published in the collection “Yıldız İzi” (Star Trail). In commemoration of Metin Altıok, her first collection of poems, “Gölgesi Yıldız Dolu” (The Shadow is Full of Stars), was published in 2013. In her book she describes the Metin Altıok she knew as a father, and the traces of the massacre in her life.
Since 2009 Altıok has been a member of the “Toplumsal Bellek Platformu” (Social Memory Platform), “Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi Yönetim” (Women's Library Board), “Ülke Politikaları Vakfı Yönetim” (Country Policy Foundation Board) und “Nazım Hikmet Vakfı Yönetim“ (Nazım Hikmet Foundation Board).
Altıok has also become active as an editor, editing the anthologies “Bir Acıya Kiracı” (Tenants of Pain) and “Şiirin İlk atlası” (Poem's First Atlas) by Metin Altıok, Füsun Akatlı's “Kırmızı Gagalı Pelikan” (Red-beaked Pelicans) and Nesteren Davutoğlu's travel sketches “Gezi günlükleri - Afrika, Balkanlar ve Norveç”.
Publications
Yıldız İzi (Star Trail)
Zeynep’e Mektuplar (Letters to Zeynep)
Gölgesi Yıldız Dolu (The Shadow is Full of Stars)