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Turkey’s Hidden Shame
Production Company ORTV
Commissioning Network Al Jazeera English
Number of Programmes 1 x 22 minutes
Year of production 2008
Eren Keskin is a Turkish lawyer and one of the few women daring to stand up to the country’s powerful military and security forces. She represents women, many of them Kurdish, who’ve been raped and tortured in custody. This film is the story of her fight against sexual violence, police impunity and a justice system that’s riddled with corruption and abuse.
One woman, Gulbahar, describes how she was abducted in central Istanbul in broad daylight and then raped. And we meet young Azad, who, aged three, was tortured in front of his mother to extract a confession.
Producer/director: Julia Rooke
Executive Producer: Christopher Mitchell
Facilities provided by Azimuth: Offline, Online, Audio Dubbing
Online editor: Stewart Duff
Dubbing Mixer: Ken Williams
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