Ertuğrul Mavioğlu is a Turkish journalist. He worked at a number of

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

s and

television network A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or multichannel video programming distributo ...

s for 30 years. From 1980 to 1991, he spent eight years

imprisoned Imprisonment is the restraint of a person's liberty, for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is "false imprisonment". Imprisonment does not necessari ...

for political reasons. He received two awards from the Progressive Journalists Association. He is also a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

maker and co-created the film ''Bakur'' (Turkish for "North") in 2015 together with

Çayan Demirel Çayan Demirel (born 1977 Istanbul) is a Kurdish film director best known for his documentaries about the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. The documentary ''Prison Number 5 (1980-1984)'' on the Diyarbakir prison won several awards and for the documentar ...

. The film was used as evidence to prosecute him under the

Anti-Terror Law of Turkey The Anti-Terror Law of Turkey (ATL), Anti-Terror Act of Turkey (ATA) or ''Terörle Mücadele Yasası'' (TMY) in Turkish, is a nation-wide law in Turkey that was written in 1991 to strongly criminalize acts of terrorism. Background The ATA was pa ...

. He has stated that “Any

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...

one can find in this film would be propaganda for peace.”

External links

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Bakur
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Q & A with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu
on YouTube

References

Living people Turkish film producers Turkish dissidents Turkish human rights activists Turkish television journalists Turkish male journalists 20th-century Turkish male writers 21st-century Turkish male writers 20th-century Turkish journalists 21st-century Turkish journalists Turkish people imprisoned on charges of terrorism Year of birth missing (living people) {{Turkey-journalist-stub