23/03/2007 Australian first Kurdish Film Festival - Part 1

special thanks to Dr. kamal / twana nwri /devrim cilik / Faiq aziz / institute for kurdish study in Australia.

twana nwri


Kurdish Cinema: In Search of Cultural Identity
By Dr Muhammad Kamal.
Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
The Kurds make the largest ethnic community in the Middle East without a
state of their own. Their history is a chain of unsuccessful uprisings for
independence. It tells about genocide, forcible assimilation, deportation and
life in exile.
After the defeat of the Ottomans in 1918, the British forces occupied almost
all of present day Middle East. Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Point
Program for World Peace (point 12) stated that non-Turkish minorities of the
Ottoman Empire should be 'assured of an absolute unmolested opportunity
of autonomous development.'
The Treaty of Sevres signed in August 1920 gave a great hope to the Kurds
and brought them closer to statehood. But the peace conference at
Lausanne in November 1922, which was finalized in treaty in July 1923
disappointed the Kurdish delegation.
The defeated Turkey secured a position to impose demands on the
conference and categorically rejected the recognition of the national rights
of the Kurds.
The Allies satisfied with their own gains were happy to please Turkey for
two reasons; first, Mustafa Kamal who emerged as a leader advocated the
idea of westernizing Turkey and second the Allies wanted from Turkey to
block the influence of Soviet Marxism in the region.
In March 1924 with the establishment of modern and secular state of
Turkey by Mustafa Kamal, Kurdish language, associations and publications
were officially banned. Over one million Kurds were forcibly displaced.
Since then the Kurdish issue has been officially neglected and Turkish
government adopted the policy of extent. If this is a beginning of the
beginning of Kurdish cinema lets congratulate Yilmaz Güney and other
to read this article please visit http://www.openchannel.org.au/pdf/OPENLine_2007-158_Kurdish-Cinema.pdf

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