Friday 23 June 2017

Art and social protest: Words Fly Away | Söz Uçar


The short film Words Fly Away (Söz Uçar) was directed by Tufan Taştan and is based on a story by Barış Bıçakçı. It refers to Nuriye Gülmen, a professor of literature, and Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher, who are on hunger strike to protest against the dismissal from their jobs and have been arrested and detained by the police in Turkey, as well as to Veli Saçılık, a sociologist, who has also been dismissed and was attacked by the police and hit with dozens of plastic bullets while protesting.




Kitaplardan geliyorlar | They flourished from books
"Nuriye, Semih, Veli..."




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