A limping world
A limping world
MP Candidate Ayla Akat Ata is facing the danger of disability after being hit by tear gas thrown by police during the protests against the Turkish Supreme Election Board’s decision to bar some independent candidates from the 12 June general elections [decision then partly reversed].
Doctors is closely monitoring Akat Ata who risk a gangrene on her foot.
Sevahir Bayýndýr [DTP, Democratic Society Party, MP for Þirnak also suffered such violence [her hip was broken when police attacked a demonstration]. She is still using crutches.
These two Kurdish women MP have been excluded from the political context and immunity was not granted to them.
Not only the state does exclude.
Civil society organizations, while defending more predominance on the representation of women in politics, are insistently turning a blind eye to Kurdish women who are performing their democratic revolutions.
However, the Kurdish political movement, as well as Kurdish women, have carried out a revolution that will go down in the history of humanity with honor.
Did you know that the number of women dead and buried for this purpose is around 10 thousand?
And that the number of women in prison is over four thousand?
For a moment, try to think that the AKP, CHP and MHP have women co-chairs…
It also seems to you as an impossible state, doesn’t it?
In all the commissions we formed for the election campaign, we share any initiative and decision with the women.
We do not take a single decision or a single provision without them.
This is not something shaped with our blessing.
This circumstance is an unavoidable and earned consequence of the fight the women fought with dignity and strong consciousness for years.
A generation not telling lies to their families.
The other day, we held a hall meeting in one of our electoral areas.
The meeting was chaired by a young man.
During the discussion about the region’s structure and details of the campaign, a man and a woman took the floor.
These three people held different opinions and discussed passionately.
In the end some topics were agreed on, some were postponed to other meetings.
So far, you might say, nothing unusual. That's how meetings are.
What surprised me was to learn that this three people were actually a family.
Father, mother and son together in a struggle, are discussing with a maturity that doesn’t ever bear any patriarchal burs and they were trying to reach a conclusion with democrat reflexes.
Telling this story to a revolutionary from my generation, I underlined that most of our generation had began their political lives by telling lies to their families.
Without convincing our mothers, we aimed at the liberation of Turkey’s Peoples.
We were trying to bring young people in. In a struggle we couldn’t bring our brothers and sisters in.
The greatest share and honor of the reformation of this wrong belongs to the Kurdish women.
Not the women's organizations, but the state is aware of this case.
The state’s grudge against women is something of living on this awareness.
I wanted to wish a speedy recovery to women deputies whose legs and hips were broken.
Thinking about the way to express my words, the irreplaceable statement of Metin Ustündag about his leg disability came to my mind.
Dear Ata and Bayindir, "The world is limping a bit while you are walking.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sýrrý Süreyya Önder was born in Adýyaman in 1962. He works as a scriptwriter, story constructor and consultant for feature films and television series.
Beynelmilel (International) is his first feature film as both a writer and director. He also adapted the script for “Bliss / Mutluluk”.
Sýrrý Süreyya Önder was a secondary school student in 1978 when he was arrested for attending a protest demonstration against the Maraþ massacre. After coming out of prison he went to Ankara and enrolled at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He was in Ankara when the 12 September 1980 military coup happened. Önder was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison and served 7.
Beynelmilel is set in Adýyaman. Here the business for a group of local musicians hits rock bottom due to curfew laws implemented in 1982. The solutions they seek end up with the group in jail. The region’s martial law commander puts a twist to the story when he decides to create a ‘modern orchestra’ with the local musicians. The orchestra is asked to prepare a welcoming ceremony for the military council’s visit to the town. There is yet another group who is eagerly waiting for the arrival of the council: the activist university students lead by Haydar, a political science student, and Gülendam, the daughter of the new local orchestra chief plan a protest during the welcoming ceremony. The military law and the local orchestra on one side and the protesters on the other, unexpected events are about to unfold during the ceremony.
Doctors is closely monitoring Akat Ata who risk a gangrene on her foot.
Sevahir Bayýndýr [DTP, Democratic Society Party, MP for Þirnak also suffered such violence [her hip was broken when police attacked a demonstration]. She is still using crutches.
These two Kurdish women MP have been excluded from the political context and immunity was not granted to them.
Not only the state does exclude.
Civil society organizations, while defending more predominance on the representation of women in politics, are insistently turning a blind eye to Kurdish women who are performing their democratic revolutions.
However, the Kurdish political movement, as well as Kurdish women, have carried out a revolution that will go down in the history of humanity with honor.
Did you know that the number of women dead and buried for this purpose is around 10 thousand?
And that the number of women in prison is over four thousand?
For a moment, try to think that the AKP, CHP and MHP have women co-chairs…
It also seems to you as an impossible state, doesn’t it?
In all the commissions we formed for the election campaign, we share any initiative and decision with the women.
We do not take a single decision or a single provision without them.
This is not something shaped with our blessing.
This circumstance is an unavoidable and earned consequence of the fight the women fought with dignity and strong consciousness for years.
A generation not telling lies to their families.
The other day, we held a hall meeting in one of our electoral areas.
The meeting was chaired by a young man.
During the discussion about the region’s structure and details of the campaign, a man and a woman took the floor.
These three people held different opinions and discussed passionately.
In the end some topics were agreed on, some were postponed to other meetings.
So far, you might say, nothing unusual. That's how meetings are.
What surprised me was to learn that this three people were actually a family.
Father, mother and son together in a struggle, are discussing with a maturity that doesn’t ever bear any patriarchal burs and they were trying to reach a conclusion with democrat reflexes.
Telling this story to a revolutionary from my generation, I underlined that most of our generation had began their political lives by telling lies to their families.
Without convincing our mothers, we aimed at the liberation of Turkey’s Peoples.
We were trying to bring young people in. In a struggle we couldn’t bring our brothers and sisters in.
The greatest share and honor of the reformation of this wrong belongs to the Kurdish women.
Not the women's organizations, but the state is aware of this case.
The state’s grudge against women is something of living on this awareness.
I wanted to wish a speedy recovery to women deputies whose legs and hips were broken.
Thinking about the way to express my words, the irreplaceable statement of Metin Ustündag about his leg disability came to my mind.
Dear Ata and Bayindir, "The world is limping a bit while you are walking.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sýrrý Süreyya Önder was born in Adýyaman in 1962. He works as a scriptwriter, story constructor and consultant for feature films and television series.
Beynelmilel (International) is his first feature film as both a writer and director. He also adapted the script for “Bliss / Mutluluk”.
Sýrrý Süreyya Önder was a secondary school student in 1978 when he was arrested for attending a protest demonstration against the Maraþ massacre. After coming out of prison he went to Ankara and enrolled at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He was in Ankara when the 12 September 1980 military coup happened. Önder was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison and served 7.
Beynelmilel is set in Adýyaman. Here the business for a group of local musicians hits rock bottom due to curfew laws implemented in 1982. The solutions they seek end up with the group in jail. The region’s martial law commander puts a twist to the story when he decides to create a ‘modern orchestra’ with the local musicians. The orchestra is asked to prepare a welcoming ceremony for the military council’s visit to the town. There is yet another group who is eagerly waiting for the arrival of the council: the activist university students lead by Haydar, a political science student, and Gülendam, the daughter of the new local orchestra chief plan a protest during the welcoming ceremony. The military law and the local orchestra on one side and the protesters on the other, unexpected events are about to unfold during the ceremony.
