Documentary: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds 1/8

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

[ekinpassapassa]

As a Turk

I wish the people in southeast Turkey were as highly educated as the Kurdish people on this video, it is only possible to achieve a solution by knowing how to discuss our problems. I blame both sides for the civilian killings in that region, however you can't pin point where the wolf is in foggy weather!!

I am happy to be sharing my country with my Kurdish brothers and sisters but again I will be stringly against those who pursue seperatist,hidden motivations behind their words.

[YomiKAyomi]

Thanks for posting this Americans are very ignorant of other people's struggles around the world. Now one more can understand what the Kurdish people are going through.

[bhaslan]

This is to manipulate western public opinion. Imps/Zionists, through the wstrn media they control want to divide Turkey and take a big chunk of land with water. Same for Iran so thr's no serious competition in the region.Whn it's time,they'll bring democracy to their grateful Kurdistan by dropping bombs and killing the Kurdish despot that they'll install.BTW,no mention of the so-called guerrilla bombing busses,metro, etc.for 30 yrs killing 1000s of innocents with very 'advanced!'Kurdish??weapons

[okeykkey]

@DragovianMythiX you wrong..

[MosesTheCrow]

@ekinpassapassa These educated Kurds have been driven out of their country due to Turks destabilizing the region. The Turkish government doesn't want an educated Kurdish population and they do a damn good job at stopping it. The learning institutions in Turkey have so much turkish propganda that even if a kurd graduated from one of their universities, they would have become turkified. I have seen this happen to my family.

[DragovianMythiX]

so much bullshit comments.

just the facts are needed to shut people up:

Turkey exists.

"kurdistan" doesn't.

another fact; even if the pkk gets its own country, most kurds will stay in Turkey anyway. "kurdistan" has nothing at all to offer for its citizens (poor economy, poor education, poor healthcare etc.). just unhabitable mountains where not a single potato grows, so to say. Oh yeah, and who will rule "kurdistan"? i am sure a pro-us/israel puppet will. that's why the pkk exists anyway. keep

[TheAzadd]

@Hasher101 keep dreaming the lie for turks you dumb turk ,turks made many genocide & Genocide denying & kurdish language & culture is banned & turks kill kurdish civilians & turks steal history & culture from other , turks are terrorist & turks support hezbulla & uyghur terrorist even & more .

Who says Turkey is urs? u damn Mongol race. Turkey belongs to greeks & kurds & armenians . . . U came from central Asia as a Gipsy group, and took the land of Aryans in Anatolia. .

[hasrettimsin]

@ranishek4ever I have not generalized. you have misunderstood. if you read the sentence once more, you will see that I said, "Kurdish enemies denied Their existence ...". In other words: Anyone who refuses my identity, be it sexuelt, political, religious, race, cultur or language is my enemy. Do not you agree?

[ranishek4ever]

@hasrettimsin Ok, but next time be more clear with what u are explaining, if u say enemies that cud mean anything, and u shud not generalize. I see your point now, thanks for your reply.

[rOs3n]

@yamstation You know nothing! Read some books and educate yourself. I can recommend "A Modern History Of The Kurds" by David McDOWALL. After you have read at least ONE book about the kurds then maybe you can open your mouth.

[hasrettimsin]

@ranishek4ever by definition the enemy, I thought more on the governments, and all those who refuse a Kurdish reality, and people who refuse other rights they have. As you notice from my username, I'm not fascist

[ClaraListensprechen]

@ekinpassapassa I just got to see this documentary a couple days ago and I'm late to this discussion here. I am an American just trying to understand; I hear from Turks that Kurds refuse to interact with Turks and this documentary shows that Kurds have good reason not to trust Turks. But in reviewing the comments here about "dirty Mongols" and "originally Greek", it's no different than claims that Israel is ancestral land when it's originally Canaanite. It's simply time to get real, here, NOW.