Video: You Are Turkish (2010)

VİDEO: SEN TÜRKSÜN (2010)

Short film by Yusuf Sayman, a New York-based photojournalist concentrating on the relationship between the state and the individual. The first half of this 12-minute video is reminiscent of the documentary about Diyarbakır’s Prison Nr. 5.  Sayman’s  video then touches on forced evacuations of Kurdish villages and refugees from the region now living in the Mexmur Refugee camp.

A description of ‘you ARE turkish’ from the International State Crime Initiative website…

‘You ARE Turkish’ is a multimedia piece that tries to communicate how it felt to be Kurdish in Turkey during the 80s and the 90s. It tells the stories of torture, forced migration and a banned language. It is photographed in south east Turkey, the predominantly Kurdish region, and in northern Iraq where the famous Mahmour refugee camp is located. The interviews with people who lived through the atrocities committed by the Turkish Military add a personal commentary to this piece about the plight of a people.

Kurdistan Commentary

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