AK WELSAPAR

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Ak Welsapar was born September 19, 1956 in the former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan. He received his Masters degree in Journalism from Moscow State University of M.Lomonosov in 1979 and his Masters in Literature theory from Moscow Literature Institute of M.Gorkij in 1989. He is fluent in Russian and Turkmen languages.

 

Ak became a member of the Journalist Union of the USSR 1982 and the Soviet Writers’ Union 1987. The memberships were, after Soviet’s collapse transferred into the counterpart associations of the newly independent republic of Turkmenistan. In August 1993, however, Ak was excluded from both Turkmen associations after publishing documentary articles about the biggest problem in the country.

 

Following Ak’s critical articles, journalists from all over the world came to interview him about the gigantic environmental problems in Central Asia that he had exposed – shockingly high rate of infant and maternal death and the reasons behind these awful statistics - the over use of chemicals in agriculture that lead to the loss of human life and health, as well as irreversible damage to the environment of whole Central Asia. The over use was, however, motivated by the cotton monoculture - which lead to deep-going ecological problems inside the country. Problems that rapidly turned into global ecological disasters. The most visible of which is of course the successive drying out of the Aral Sea.

 

The above mentioned interviews and/or Ak’s own articles were published 1990-94 in such periodic publications as Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, The Independent, Asahi, Dagens Nyheter, Moscow News, Hürriyet… Also in different publications in countries like Greece, Denmark, Germany, France, Canada, and many others.

 

The Neo-Stalinist regime of Turkmenistan further declared Ak Welsapar as “Public Enemy Number One” and continued the persecutions. He was several times placed under house-arrest, his work was banned from being published and his already published books were plucked from stores and libraries and burnt in a bonfire. Also his family was increasingly affected. Ak’s wife was fired from her teacher position, and their ten-year old son was not allowed to continue the elementary school.

 

The persecutions were the reason that Ak and his family finally left their home country in 1993. The family members have now been permanent residents of Sweden since 1994. Ak was accepted into the Swedish Writers’ Union in 1996.

e-mail: (welsapar@turkmens.net)

 

 


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