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350-4-6:1/1
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What Happened at Güçlükonak? / Güçlükonak 'Ta Ne Oldu? Documentary made by peace activists in Turkey about the January 15, 1996 massacre of villagers in Guclukonak, Turkey. Turkish, English, Kurdish language, Date of production: 1998, Duration: 13 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009988 |
| BetaSP NTSC #2 | |
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350-4-6:2/1
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World In Action: The Young Turks Report revealing questionable practices and abuses committed by the Turkish police. Turkish, English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 28 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009989 |
| BetaSP NTSC #3 | |
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350-4-6:3/1
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Turkey Prison of Fear Documentary about the abuses committed by the Turkish police, as well as human rights abuses and torture committed against Kurds voiced by testimonies of victims. English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 10 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009990 |
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350-4-6:3/2
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Eren Keskin Case Documentary about Eren Keskin, the head of the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) and one of the founders of the Legal Aid Project for sexually tortured women, as well as an ardent critic of the Turkish government's treatment of the Kurdish minority. English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 10 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009990 |
| BetaSP NTSC #4 | |
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350-4-6:4/1
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Leyla Zana for The Nobel Peace Prize Documentary about Leyla Zana, a Kurdish female politician from Eastern Turkey, who was imprisoned for speaking her native language of Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament after taking her parliamentary oath, and for political actions which were claimed to be against the unity of Turkey. Major international political figures call for Turkey to stop oppressing Kurds and observe international human rights conventions. English language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 11 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009991 |
| BetaSP NTSC #5 | |
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350-4-6:5/1
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Refugee Clip Reel - News Access Tape The clip reels, facilitated by AI (Amnesty International) researchers on the field, cover the following: Tanzania—the Zairian refugees in transit; Kenya—the Kakuma refugee camp where two refugees, one from Somalia and the other from Rwanda, are being interviewed; Mexico and Guatemala—Santa Fe refugee camp and Chiapas, interviews with a Guatemalan refugee and a Guatemalan returnee; and Haiti—with images of people fleeing Port au Prince, unidentified corpses and detained asylum seekers. English, French, Spanish; Castilian language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 10 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009992 |
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350-4-6:5/2
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Eren Keskin: A Life Under Threat Relatives of those who have disappeared are gathering in a square in Istanbul to demand that the Turkish government release their loved ones. The Government denies knowing anything about their whereabouts. Turkish Human Rights activist and lawyer, Eren Keskin, meets with a family whose son had been found dead, his body recovered. Eren Keskin, who works on their case, was also imprisoned for writing articles on the political situation in Turkey, particularly those referring to the relationship between Turkish authorities and the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK). She gives an interview in which she recounts her own time in prison and talks about the struggle to enforce human rights in Turkey. English, English, Turkish language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 7 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009992 |
| BetaSP NTSC #6 | |
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350-4-6:6/1
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Turkey - PKK Fighters The fight for a Kurdish state has been led for over forty years by wealthy landowners. In the 1980s, however, a new force has emerged: the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). This film follows the PKK as they move along the mountainous border between Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan in the aftermath of the First Gulf War in 1991. English, Kurdish, Turkish language, Date of production: 1995, Duration: 13 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009993 |
| BetaSP NTSC #7 | |
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350-4-6:7/1
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Turkish Kurds - Leyla Zana Recording of a television program broadcast on Arte TV. The first part is a talk show in which Peter Wien moderates a discussion about the situation of the Kurds in the early 1990s. The second part, called "Lettre а mon ennemi” ("Letter to My Enemy"), presents Leyla Zana, a female politician of Kurdish descent from Eastern Turkey, who talks about the situation of the Kurds in Diyarbakir, Turkey. She travels with the television crew to several Turkish villages, where the locals describe kidnappings, bombings, house burnings, and other human rights abuses committed by the Turkish security forces. French, German, French language, Date of production: 1993-02, Duration: 57 min. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009994 |
| BetaSP NTSC #8 | |
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350-4-6:8/1
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Destruction of Şırnak This raw footage presents the aftermath of the destruction of a Turkish Kurdish village in Şırnak (Shirnekh) by Turkish military forces. It includes interviews with villagers about their perished relatives and the physical destruction of the city. Kurdish language, Date of production: 1992-08-23, Duration: 42 min. 49 sec. Digital version available | HU_OSA_00009995 |