Documentary: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds 8/8

A war of national liberation or war against terrorism? Filmmaker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film shot in part by legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler. It's all in how you define "good"and "bad". "Good Kurds" are those in Iraq: they are Saddam Hussein's victims, whom we want to help. "Bad Kurds" are those waging an armed insurrection against Turkey, an American ally: they are the receiving end of US weaponry. During the first Gulf War, McKiernan went to northern Iraq to cover the uprising against Saddam Hussein. Just a few miles away no one was covering the hidden war in Turkey. McKiernan determined he would report the story independently.

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds -- nine years in the making -- delves deeply into the U.S.'s complicity in this human rights disaster, indicting the mainstream news outlets that, by staying quiet, help perpetuate the violence. Shot in part by three-time Academy Award winner Haskell Wexler, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds travels from Santa Barbara, California, home to a small Kurdish refugee community, to Washington, D.C, where an activist struggles to gain the attention of lawmakers and the media and fight his deportation, and to Turkey, where the anti-Kurd campaign continues. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds brings sharp clarity to a complicated history, while providing disturbing insight into immigration practices and US foreign policy.

Director/Producer: Kevin McKiernan
Cinematographers: Haskell Wexler,
Kevin McKiernan
Editor: Thomas G. Miller
Music: Bronwen Jones

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Turkey
• Kurdish conflict
• Kurdistan
• Turkish terror
• turkish state terror
• ataturk
• armenian genocide
• turks and kurds
• colony
• kurdish people
• Ocalan
• PKK
• TC
• Israel turkey
• the terror state of turkey
• article 301
• kevin mckiernan

[YomiKAyomi]

thanks 4 posting!

[hasrettimsin]

@YomiKAyomi Welcome :D

[kawayussef]

Thank you Mr Kevin McKiernan, Brilliant job...

[lazerz4eyez]

Excellent documentary.

Perpetual violence and hate, so is the way of man. The military industrial complex will churn through the meat and the flesh, fueled by power and greed, with morality and patriotism as it's faux flag.

[26bulduklu50]

erdogan says muslims brother for gaza but he attack kurdish villages and kill civilian like israil make in gaza.. Iran attack kandil mountain and kill civilian who is muslims. everything is about money and power. turkey and iran use islam for shield but they dont act like a muslim...

[yovkoto]

@awat1000 I want kurds ant turks to be understand and live togheter,but for them "RIGHTS" means "UNDEPENTED STATE" and I can not agree with that. The kurds in Turkey are turkish citizents and they have the same rights like the other citizents from other ethnic groups.I have kurdish friends and they do not support PKK and they are glad from their country.

[awat1000]

@yovkoto If turkey do not give the Kurds their right those children that you seen in the end of the movie(bad kurds good kurds) will continue Ocalans way.....DO NOT FORGET THAT

[awat1000]

@yovkoto That might be right BUT! If you belive in freedom and dcmocrasy , You should accept what now Kurdish people want . over 15 milions kurds living only in Turkey and they want their rights so Why turks do not give their rights? Im truly against war and violence but if u take look at Turkey history you will see that how many journalist activitiest lost their life because of the way they were thinking... you guys should accept that you have 20 milions kurds

[yovkoto]

@awat1000 And who are you to decide which nation where belongs?And where are the kurds belong?So the Americans do not belong to their lands because they imigrated there,the arabs do not belong to Egypt,Syria and so on because they imigrated from Arabia.The Europeans do not belong to Europe because they emigrated from Iran.If the kurds like Canada all "40 MILLION" can all go there.GET OUT OF TURKEY WE DO NOT WANT PEOPLE WHO PUTS KNIFE ON YOUR BACK IN OUR SACRET LAND.

[awat1000]

Good job Kevin It is a great Dcocumantery we Kurdish people appreciate what u have done . Im sure those children that u show them in the end of the documantery will continue Apos way..

[awat1000]

@yovkoto that land is not belong to turks .. Turks immigrated there from asia and they genosice Armenian Asyrian Greeks and Kurds .. You can not compare Turkey with usa .. they have different history culture and back ground go up to usa Canada in Canada there is a province they speak french and they have right to speak write in french they have everything french so why not 40 milions kurds have their own schools and maintain their culture