Documentary: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds 4/8

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

[erstguterjungelan]

hello from germany =) thanks for the clip

[hasrettimsin]

@erstguterjungelan Hallo Deutschland :D you welcome :D

[theamazingethann]

ITS THE BIGGEST SHAME OF ALL THAT THERE IS NOT EVEN 2000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVEN WATCHED THIS IF U WATCH PLEASE SEND 2 TEN FRIENDS AND I AM NOT KURDISH JUS GREW UP WITH ALOT OF THEM TRULY GOOD PEOPLE

[Metini1]

this is a great documentary which highlights the plight of the kurds. every country and government participates in propoganda and if anyone wants to simply "brush this doco under the carpet" then it reveals how sad the world has become. You will recognize the palestinian struggle against the atrocities from isreal, however cant see the atrocities done by the turkish govn. it is double standards at its worst.

[shilangirl]

Long Live Kurdistan! go back to Mongolia TURKEY.

[chevgoldfinch]

I am Kurd and not a PKK supporter, but I would join PKK to fight the turk, because the turkish people are facisit just like their government and abuse and discriminate Kurds at every level, and for those turks that comment on here saying Kurdish Brothers are probably Kurds who have been assimilated to turks. For the turk its to late to apologise the damage has been done.

We will fight until we get our independent Kurdistan.

Long Live Free Kurdistan!

[maligjokica]

My country Macedonia was 512 years uder the rule of the Osmanly turks.But then they where not nationalist.And thouse 512 years where scary indid. I cant just imagen how now is to live under the rule of turks who have nationalism on steroids!! (plus american weapon and suport)

[MrFurkiboy42]

@BJIKURD1 i bet you understood me.. you fucking non-country morron go lick israelish jews ass u fucking morron

[BJIKURD1]

@ekinpassapassa I respect your comment a lot because this is how educated and civilised people speak.

I hope too the Turkish Goverment one day will act like humans and treat Kurds as humans.

But i doubt it ever happening

[BJIKURD1]

@MrFurkiboy42 What the fuck are you saying, speak in an understandable way please.

[MrFurkiboy42]

@BJIKURD1 i'm also a Turk but you cant say whole turkey does that... well if i think those who does what u saying "targeting kurds not only pkk" think like this "most of kurds says they hate or their not with pkk and so on but some of them is just lyng thats probably the reason of why some turks hate both pkk and kurds?