Emrah Güler

Articles de cet auteur (2)

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  Pop culture in Turkey pushes the nation’s buttons once again

  13 May 2011

  Pop culture continues to bring out the nation’s sensitivities, or, more likely, insecurities. Controversy is sparked by a TV series showing Sultan Süleyman courting women in the harem rather than conquering the known world, and by a comic book showing a young Atatürk beaten by his superior in the military. Both are accused of tarnishing Turkey’s history. But when it comes to the ultra-nationalistic, ultra-violent movie ’Valley of the Wolves: Palestine,’ there’s no reaction
  The new TV series (...)

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  Kurdish films featured at !f in Istanbul

  23 février 2011

  Last year’s popular section ’The Opening’ continues at this year’s !f AFM International Independent Film Festival. The section features four Kurdish movies, one classic and three contemporary films on love, loss, conflict and what it means to be a woman during wartime.
  Four Kurdish films, one classic movie and three contemporary ones on love, loss, conflict and what it means to be a woman during wartime, are being screened at this year’s !f AFM International Independent Film Festival.
  The (...)