https://psyche.co/portraits/burhan-sonmez-from-brutal-assault-to-a-life-in-lite… Created Thu, 26/02/2026 - 22:00 Updated Thu, 26/02/2026 - 22:00 Burhan Sönmez, now the president of PEN International, was a rising human rights lawyer in Turkey. A brutal assault nearly killed him – and propelled him to a life in literature- by Kaya GençRead on Psyche