year : 2019 | independent documentary | creative nomads production
Zehra Doğan is a girl. She is 29 years old. She is Turkish, Kurdish ethnicity, and she was imprisoned for three years with the charge of been a terrorist.
She is a journalist, but above all she is a painter and it’s because of a painting that she was charged with the accusation of terrorism.
But Zehra is not the only Turkish woman who was accused and has paid with her freedom for a crime she did not commit.
Also Asli Erdogan, world-known Turkish writer, despite her last name, has served 136 days in prison, with the charge of being a terrorist of the PKK.
And then there is Sebnem Korur Fincanci. She too was incarcerated and accused of terrorism. All three of them have dared to express dissent against the actual politics of their country and against the cruel war that Erdoğan is conducting against the ambitions of the Kurds. Three women, different for age, ethnicity, background, but whose stories come together dramatically in the description of some crucial events that took place in Turkey in the last five years.
TERRORISTE - Documentary
