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Documentary: Turkey’s hidden shame

• KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
• 20/02/2009 00:00:00

London (20 February 2009) KurdisMedia.com: The English channel of al-Jazeera has produced a documentary film “Turkey's hidden shame” and shown in the witness program. The film exposes torture and rape of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey.

The filmmaker interviewed human rights lawyer, Eren Keskin, who has been defending the victims and takes the cases to the European Human Rights Court. The lawyer Eren Keskin herself has been subject of persecution and prosecution of the Turkish authorities. Few victims of the torture and rape also were interviewed in the film.

The documentary can be viewed in two parts in the links given below:

Turkey’s hidden shame - Part 1

Turkey’s hidden shame - Part 2

• KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
• 20/02/2009 00:00:00