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Karakuyu Village

People living in rural areas are no longer forced to emigrate to the city, the city emigrates to them. The village, where livelihoods are agriculture and animal husbandry, is transformed from day to day into fields, making agriculture entirely unworkable, and also reducing animal husbandry. The making of livestock, which is still the only source of income for many families, is getting harder every day. While the city is squeezing the village, the everyday life and habits of the families are being sucked in blocks of concrete and the inhabitants are waiting nervously what the future will bring…
DOMIK

In December 1988, the devastating "Spitak Earthquake" hit the Northern part of Armenia where it killed at least 25.000 people and left half a million homeless...
Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Referendum, 2017

The Federal Kurdistan Region located in the north of Iraq was founded on the agreement concluded between Saddam Hussein and Mustafa Barzani on 11 March 1970....
Dicle Valley

The Valley of Dicle, which is located east of Diyarbakır’s city center, owns the Silvan Bridge in its north, as well as the Dicle River in its south, containing the rebuilt Merwani bridge....
Êzîdxan

Êzîdîsm is based in the Kurdish-speaking areas of the Middle East and Caucasus as well as in Europe. The mojority of them still live in Iraq; the biggest Êzîdî communitywas living in Shengal. Being Kurds and non-Muslims, Êzîdîs have suffered greatly from both ethnic and religious persecuation throughout history.
MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT ANNIVERSARY

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the Bosphorus Bridge, which was renamed '15th of July Martyr's Bridge'
JUSTICE RALLY

1.5 million attended the Justice Rally in Maltepe to demand justice and freedom where Kilicdaroglu finished his march by walking alone the last 3 km to the rally square. Turkey's main oppositional party leader (CHP - Republican People's Party) Kemal Kilicdaroglu has completed a “Justice March” from Turkey's capital city Ankara to Istanbul in Maltepe on the 8th of July, 2017. The Justice March started in order to protest against the detention of his party's lawmaker Enis Berberoglu. The 432 km long march took 24 days.
Justice March

Turkey's main oppositional party leader (CHP - Republican People's Party) Kemal Kilicdaroglu started a “Justice March” from Turkey's capital city Ankara to Istanbul in order to protest against the detention of his party's lawmaker Enis Berberoglu...
Alipaşa, Urban Transformation

Diyarbakir's neighborhoods Alipasa and Lalebey have been shaped through armed fights and forced migration since the 90s...
Yeni Şükran; a Second Class Hotel

Yeni Şükran, Hacı Hasan back then, started to serve as a hotel in the beginning of the 20th century and it is the one and such an only example of Kemeraltı hotels that has still functions today...
Dest-i Izdivac, a Marriage TV Show

Dest-i Izdivac, the first marriage programme on TV, was aired in 2007 on Flash TV for the first time...
GAYAN

The Gayan project is tracing the Armenian memory from 1915 until today in Turkey and Armenia as well as at the genocide’s significant stations in the Middle East: Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran and Jordan.
After The Constitutional Referendum

The Constitutional Referendum’s results have been announced. According to unofficial numbers, 51.3 % of the votes have been in favor of a constitutional reform, whereas 48.7% have been against it.
Constitutional Referendum 2017

‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns for the upcoming constitutional referendum on the 16th of April 2017 in Turkey
Profile Pictures

The children, who had to leave Syria at the beginning of the Civil War, have grown into adolescents in Turkey. A majority of these teenagers have been students back in Syria, whereas in Turkey they have been deprived of their right to education...
A STORY OF ABANDONMENT: MADEN

Copper deposits which lend its name to Maden District of Elazığ have been known as the oldest and the richest deposits in the world. These copper deposits have been processed by many civilisations throughout history. After 1938,...
Seasonal Migration

The Southern Kurtalan Train Express route came into service in 1944 and, starting from Kurtalan, stops in Diyarbakır, Malatya, Sivas, Kayseri and Ankara. This train route is mostly used by seasonal workers that are living in east Turkey, but are working on the western part of the country from spring to fall for...
FACES

Portraits From Coup Protest
MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT IN TURKEY

A group of the Turkish army claimed to be in charge of the country by sending an email to journalists. The group accused the government of eroding Turkey’s secular traditions.People gathered at the Beylerbeyi entrance of the bosphorus bridge, which was blocked by turkish soldiers, to protest against the military coup
DISPLACED - A Syrian Journey from Turkey to Germany

'Since the war started, I feel that I am not in life; I just live because I have to live. I have to take care of my children. Of course I was so glad that I made it. I brought my children here safely and they will build their career. I don't have any wishes for myself. Just my wish is that… to be calm. But I still have many pains in my heart. Because children… not just in Syria, everywhere I see children suffer...'
Trabzon Idmanocagi Women’s Football Team

The Trabzon Idmanocagi women’s football team was founded in the season of 2007-2008 and moved up to Turkey’s first division in the season of 2009-2010.
Tracing Voices

the voice has been born out of the water, out of the bird, out of lullabies, out of mothers’ lullabies, out of women’s lullabies; it is nature’s voice... it is the voice of the mountain, the voice of the sea...
Curfew in Nusaybin

In Nusaybin, a district of Mardin where curfew has been declared two times before, another curfew that has been enacted on the 13th of November was lifted on the 26th of November 2015. At the end of the siege of fourteen days, nine civilians were killed...
REFUGEES : JOURNEY TO EUROPE

Thousands of people fleeing conflicts and poverty in countries as Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Somalia aren`t provided with legal routes to enter Europe. As a consequence, they are using dangerous routes on the Aegean on rubber dinghies. A big amount of refugees enter Greece through the island of Lesbos, with Turkey as a starting point. After successfully crossing the sea, the refugees are continuing their journey either by walking or on buses to the city center of Lesbos, where they are able to catch the ferry to Athens.

STORIES

DOMIK

In December 1988, the devastating "Spitak Earthquake" hit the Northern part of Armenia where it killed at least 25.000 people and left half a million homeless......

SPOT NEWS

Selahattin Demirtas Hearing

People gathered at the Bakırkoy Courthouse to support the jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas. ...

Darkness Nearby

Diyarbakır Prison No. 5, the largest prison of the region has been built after the September 12, 1980 military coup and used as a Martial Law Military Prison between 1980 and 1988. We listen to three women who has witnessed those times. Fatma, living close to the prison; Ayse who had been taken into cus......