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BEING A KURD IN GERMANY

ALS KURDE IN DEUTSCHLAND

Berivan Aymaz, a 24 year-old student, visits her birthplace in Turkey for the first time after 18 years. It’s an uncertain and dangerous journey into her childhood. Bingol is in Eastern Anatolia, and is far from the idyllic Turkey in holiday brochures. This city resembles a war zone, with police or military stationed at every corner. A few hours from Ankara, a war between the Turkish military and the PKK, the Kurdish Workers Party, has been raging for the last twelve years. The war has already claimed 10,000 lives. Countless villages have been evacuated, and the inhabitants deported to the cities. Forests have ben razed. All of this has been done to guarantee that the PKK has no loopholes…

Documentary

Time

45 min.

Director

Kadir Sözen

Production

Filmfabrik GmbH

Broadcasted

20.11.1996

Network

ZDF