Jailed Kurdish journalist Zehra Dogan’s art exhibited in Vienna

Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan’s art is being exhibited in Vienna’s Künstlerhaus.

Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan’s art is being exhibited in Vienna’s Künstlerhaus.

The exhibit is sponsored by “Asyl in Not”, a non-governmental organization working to help refugees in Germany, and is open to visitors until March 16.

Dogan’s artwork on young student Kemal Korkut who was killed by Turkish police during Newroz celebrations in Amed last year and on the villagers, who were tortured by Turkish soldiers in Nusaybin are among her works on display at the exhibit.

Every visitor of the exhibition writes postcards to Zehra Dogan, who is imprisoned in Turkey for her journalistic work.

During the exhibition the documentary “Seven days and seven nights” is screened. The documentary is about Mother. Taybet Ana.Turkish state forces murdered Mother Taybet during the "curfew" in Şırnak’s Silopi district in 2015 and did not let her dead body be retrieved from the scene, leaving her dead body out on the street for a whole week.